Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: International Research Collaborations

Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a type of stroke that is caused by a ruptured brain aneurysm. It affects about 10 out of every 100,000 people in Canada each year, and the victims are often young and in the most productive years of their lives. We have developed some treatments for patients with ruptured brain aneurysms but many people still die or suffer from permanent brain damage from the hemorrhage. Since this type of stroke is not that common, the studies that we do are often conducted at hospitals around the world. In order to coordinate these studies, to understand what the causes of the poor outcome are, to figure out what treatments work, and to design international cooperative studies, we want to use this grant to have a meeting to form an international cooperative group of specialists and experts who study this disease.