Since our inception in 2000, Ontario Genomics has supported over $1.7 billion in follow-on investment for applied genomics research in Ontario and supporting over 20,000 trainees and high-skilled jobs. We have 110+ active projects and over 500 impactful partnerships supporting a total Ontario GDP growth of over $1.8 billion since 2013.
Our impact extends beyond Ontario and Canada to the whole world. By supporting innovation and science, our community is able to make amazing strides to solve the world’s greatest challenges.
The advent of groundbreaking and more affordable genome sequencing and gene editing technologies and the continued convergence of the life and data sciences have driven the broader application of genomics and engineering biology and the coming of age of a bio-revolution.
Ontario Genomics leverages its unique position to help Ontario fully capitalize on the health, economic, and environmental benefits in a genomics- and engineering biology-enabled world and catapult the province to national and international leadership in the global bio-revolution.
Ontario Genomics unlocks the potential of genomics innovation by supporting cutting-edge Made-in-Ontario solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
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Ontario Genomics also enables challenge-oriented knowledge translation, training, education, and talent development across sectors through various programs to strengthen Ontario’s research and innovation potential.
Thanks to your ground-breaking work, Ontario is becoming a global leader in research and innovation across sectors such as health, agriculture and agri-food, bioproducts, natural resources, and the environment. Genomics technologies and tools have the potential to transform lives and help solve some of our biggest challenges. Your support for genomics research is having a large impact on Ontarians’ health care and well-being.”
My research interest in genomics is in understanding the best use of genomics in infection prevention, particularly outbreak management. But much of my work in this pandemic has been to try to develop strategies to make sure that samples and meta-data are available to support everyone’s research agendas. The ONCoV Genomics Coalition, built by Ontario Genomics, has provided a vital platform to facilitate this.
Ontario Genomics is the hub for the province’s genomics research and has shown leadership in this trying time through initiatives like ONCoV, which helped create a collaborative network to support Ontario’s response to the pandemic. Ontario Genomics provided invaluable user feedback and commercialization guidance to support the success and scalability of COVID Cloud. We are excited to continue our collaboration and extend the reach of this technology beyond COVID-19 to other public health crises and specialty disease areas.
Solving complex problems such as a worldwide pandemic and climate change requires transdisciplinary approaches across the life sciences. Genome Canada, together with Ontario Genomics and Canada’s other regional Genome Centres, is on a mission to deliver genomic solutions for pandemic preparedness, biomanufacturing, and our developing bio-economy.
GIFS is building out its biomanufacturing platform to scale up research, development, and production in agriculture and food. We’re pleased to be a member of the Ontario Genomics-led National Engineering Biology Steering Committee, driving Canada’s strategy for biomanufacturing that’s projected to have a huge impact on agri-food over the next decade.
Congratulations to Ontario Genomics for 20 years of revolutionizing genomics research and commercialization in Ontario. It is because of your commitment to excellence and leadership in the field, that Ontario continues to create strategic genomics resources and advances the development of globally competitive life sciences sectors.”
Ontario Genomics continues to create successful public-private partnerships that capitalize on the very best Ontario has to offer. Ontario is well positioned to turn genomic discoveries into “made-in-Ontario” technologies and products that impact our communities and support job creation and economic growth.
Our impact focus translates world-class genomics research and leading-edge innovation into solutions to today’s greatest challenges.
Genomics is helping us address the greatest human health challenges of our time, driving life-saving breakthroughs and unlocking revolutionary advances in medicine.
We are spearheading the translation of dynamic, applied genomics innovations for better health, healthcare, and pandemic preparedness.
When it comes to human health, genomics can be a game changer. Recent advances in our capability to inexpensively sequence the complete human genome and rapidly process and interpret this complex information are changing our understanding of health and disease.
We are learning that differences in an individual’s genetic make-up, or in the specific genetic changes that led to a patient’s disease, are important to how that patient’s disease develops and responds to treatment. This information can be used to better design and customize effective treatments.
These advances have led to personalized medicine – an approach to health care in which treatment is informed by a deep understanding of the genomic changes that contribute to each patient’s health and disease.
Genomics has already made tangible improvements in health outcomes and treatment of patients affected by cancer, cardiac diseases, autism, and rare diseases, among other chronic and acute conditions.
These avenues are just the tip of the iceberg of the many possibilities of genomics in health. At Ontario Genomics, we aim to understand both the challenges and opportunities in the health sector. We are also advancing a “One Health” approach, addressing the interconnectedness of people, animals, plants and their shared environment to strengthen Canadian and global health security.
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Genomics is helping us address the greatest food security challenges of our time, driving sustainable food production and unlocking revolutionary advances in agriculture.
We are building on our existing leadership to support a modern engineering biology-based, sustainable agriculture and food ecosystem.
Food security and safety, pests and climate change are just a few of the challenges facing agriculture in Ontario and around the world. As an agriculture and food industry leader in North America, Ontario is poised to address these important hurdles and opportunities in order to continue producing abundant nutritious food and healthy animals for its 14.5 million residents.
The agri-food sector is a major economic driver in Ontario, contributing over $47.3 billion a year to our economy. Ontario boasts a large and diverse agricultural sector, with rich lands supporting over 49,600 farms and producing over 200 agricultural commodities.
The food and beverage processing sector is the largest in Canada, and one of North America’s most significant. Ontario has benefited immensely from research, investments, and innovation in the agricultural sector: improving food security, increasing crop yields, producing higher quality livestock, and supporting new products for emerging and growing markets.
Advances in emerging genomics-based technologies offer novel tools and breakthrough solutions to our most significant food security challenges. Ontario Genomics enables the adoption and use of these technologies to help facilitate the development and commercialization of new products and improve production processes for food producers, manufacturers, and consumers, ensuring that Ontario remains ahead of the food security curve.
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Genomics is helping us address the greatest environmental challenges of our time, driving the competitive industrial biotech sector and unlocking revolutionary advances towards sustainability.
We are strengthening environmental sustainability across sectors, leading Ontario’s industries to transition away from harmful processes through a circular bioeconomy approach.
Genomics research in industrial biotechnology and environment is an emerging field, its applications and opportunities are being recognized as a source of tremendous potential growth, and a way to position the sector to tackle the growing environmental challenges of the world.
Government and industry leaders are looking to the bioproducts sector to address the pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century, from the detrimental levels of greenhouse gas emissions accumulated through our current system of production and consumption, to the dwindling reserves of nonrenewable resources such as petroleum.
With the bio-products sector generating $4.3 billion in revenues and $1.4 billion in exports, Canada has already taken the first steps towards building an economic foundation in this burgeoning bio-based global market expected to grow to $868 billion by 2025.
The development of a thriving bioproducts sector in Ontario will enable businesses and industries alike to become active players in this global push while simultaneously capturing economic growth.
At Ontario Genomics, we aim to understand both the challenges and opportunities in this sector. We are strengthening environmental sustainability across the spectrum and supporting Ontario’s bioproducts industries to innovate and transition away from harmful processes through a circular bioeconomy approach.
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