The Biobanque Québécoise

The Biobanque Québécoise de la COVID-19 (BQC19) is a province-wide biobank which mission is to provide high-quality data and samples to the scientific and medical community in order to better understand, combat and limit the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

This initiative is led by Dr. Vincent Mooser, Director of its Executive Committee, and a Canada Research Excellence Chair in Genomic Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. It was made possible with the contribution and involvement of inter-institutional and multidisciplinary teams including McGill Genome Center and C3G.

The BQC19 is available to researchers across the country and around the world. Since having access to high-quality data and samples is essential to win the war with the COVID-19 pandemic, the biobank is committed to the principles of Open Science to make all data accessible to qualified researchers.

Visit: bqc19.ca
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