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HCA Africa

The first HCA Africa Symposium took place online in March 2022. The Symposium aimed to connect researchers and create opportunities for forming new groups and collaborations working on single-cell and spatial genomics, computational techniques, and other methods. Since then the HCA Africa community has grown to more than 85 members from 13 countries in the region, through training workshops and meetings.

HCA is considering ways of building on these activities to build and support a single cell community in Africa, to increase HCA participation.

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Advancing engagement in single-cell and molecular research in Africa

The UNESCO-Human Cell Atlas Africa Leadership Workshop took place in Kenya, 15-16 December 2025
05 Feb 2026

HCA Africa Training Workshop, Ghana, 7-10 March, 2023 

HCA Africa hosted the four-day in-person Computational and Experimental Design Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-10 March, 2023. 
16 Mar 2023

HCA Africa Computational Workshops (Virtual)

HCA is hosting virtual workshops to introduce Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis tools and techniques to researchers based in Africa, thanks to support by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
21 Oct 2022