April 2025: Awarded Medical Research Council funds to collect and type DNA from 6,000 people with aneurysms in the UK, of whichÌý300 will be samples from ruptured aneurysm cases undergoing whole genome sequencing, contributing to one of the consortium's aims to study the genetic underpinnings of clinical outcome after subarachnoidÌý haemorrhage
May-July 2024: Awarded Ferblanc and Wessex Medical Research grants to follow up findings of the pilot GWAS
September 2023: Awarded Rosetrees Trust grant to collect and type 2,000 DNA samples from people who had a subarachnoid haemorrhage via the UK and Ireland Subarachnoid Haemorrhage database (UKISAH)
October 2023: Pilot GWAS published in Translational Stroke Research
July 2023: Publication in Stroke of a review and expert consensus on clinical translation of haptoglobin treatment for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
18th April 2023:ÌýBen Gaastra, HATCH consortium trainee, is awarded a NIHR Clinical Lectureship in Platform Sciences and Bioinformatics
16-18th June 2023: Meeting at the 16th International Conference on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (ISAH), Durham, North Carolina, US
March 2022:ÌýZoom HATCH conference "GWAS of outcome after SAH: Stage 1 results"
January 2022: GWAS protocol published in Translational Stroke Research
January 2022: Long-term cognitive outcome following SAH study published
DecemberÌý2021: Presentation of "GWAS of outcome after SAH" protocol to ISGC
November 2021:ÌýPresentation of "GWAS of outcome after SAH" protocol to British Neurosurgical Research Group
September 2021: Presentation ofÌý"GWAS of outcome after SAH" to ISGC
May 2021:ÌýBen Gaastra, HATCH consortium trainee, is awarded research fellowship (Guarantors of Brain) to work on the discovery GWAS
MarchÌý2021: Zoom HATCH conference "GWAS of outcome after SAH: Protocol"
June 2020: Ben Gaastra, HATCH consortium trainee, is awarded research fellowship (RCS/SBNS/Barrow) to work on the discovery GWAS
4thÌý- 5th November 2019: Zoom conference "GWAS of outcome after SAH"
June - October 2019: a number of investigators join the Consortium, bringing the total membership to 28 centres across 5 continents
25-28th June 2019: Meeting at the 15th International Conference on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (ISAH), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
February 2019: Neurology haptoglobin IPLD paper published
20th June 2018: Nature Reviews Neurology review published
30th September - 3rd October 2017: Meeting at the 14th International Conference on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (ISAH), Los Angeles, US
8-9th June 2017: Founding HATCH Consortium meeting, Winchester, UK
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Join us at ISAH 2025. Please email hatch@soton.ac.uk to arrange a meeting.
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