CanGèneTest is a pan-Canadian research consortium studying Health Care and Health Policy Challenges in Genetic Laboratory Services.

This research network started its activities in 2005 with the financial support from the Canadian Genetic Diseases Network, a network of Centers of Excellence in Canada and a joint 3-year grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Institute of Genetics and Institute of Health Services and Policy Research), the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health and the Heart and Stroke Foundation through the Health Care and Health Policy Challenges in Genetic Services request for applications held in 2004.

CanGèneTest comprises the work of 17 principal investigators, 20 individual collaborators, mostly clinicians, and 4 national and international organization partners.

CanGèneTest researchers:

• Lead and participate to numerous research projects in the field of Genetic Laboratory Services;
• Colligate and disseminate information related to the clinical Canadian genetic laboratories;
• Distribute freely a monthly e-Newsletter describing recent headlines in Genetic research;
• Make available a continuously growing bibliographic database that includes information of articles, papers, reports related to genetic laboratory research;
• Are implicated in the training of students at either pre-graduate, master or doctorate levels. Moreover, research teams may receive invited guests.