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Lifetime Care and Support Authority of NSW will be running a workshop for Sydney in April, Liverpool in July and Newcastle in October.

Australian and New Zealand Spinal Cord Society
Annual Scientific Meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, 26 - 28 November 2008.

Project Walk
Watch the video at Walk On SCI Recovery Project

What you should know if you are considering participation in a clinical trial

how you can help

Mr Gary Allsop
Walk In My Shoes fundraiser

Projects

  • NRMA Insurance / SpinalCure Australia Senior Fellowship $300,000
    Pictured: St Vincent's Dr David Brown (centre)and IAG's Petrina Casey (right). 2007-2008: CEBPD In Spinal Cord Injury Progress report CEBPD is a protein that is made during inflammation in the spinal ...
  • Lisa Palmer Spinal Research Consortium $650,000
    21 October 2005 The Vice-Chancellor of The University of Queensland, Professor John Hay, AC, today accepted a bequest of $650,000 from the estate of Lisa Denise Palmer, who died of cancer after...
  • University of Melbourne $300,000
    Dr Yona Goldshmit at the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne was awarded the SpinalCure Australia Fellowship for $100,000 over a three-year period. May 2007 - We have received a...
  • Red's Spinal Cord Research Laboratory WA $241,000
    Red’s Spinal Cord Research Laboratory at The University of Western Australia is the beneficiary of generous financial support from Eileen Bond. Dr Giles Plant's research is titled Lentiviral vector...
  • University of Queensland $80,000
    A SpinalCure Australia Fellowship of $40,000 pa for two years (2004-2005), has been awarded to Dr Natalie Bull of Dr Rodney Rietze’s stem cell research group at The University of Queensland. Her...
  • Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute $80,000
    Dr Yewlan Wanigasekara-Mohotti, under the supervision of Professor Janet Keast, has been awarded the SCA Fellowship. Dr Wanigasekara-Mohotti’s project is titled Investigation of the mechanisms of...
  • Kelly McCann Fellowship
    Dr Penelope McNulty has been awarded the Kelly McCann Fellowship to the value of $41,245 pa for three years (2004-2006). This award is in recognition of the efforts of Kelly - a quadriplegic who with ...
  • Woodside Energy Ltd $69,000
    A partnership between SpinalCure Australia and Woodside Energy Ltd will provide $69,000 for research over three years. Each year Woodside Energy will make available five Woodside Neurotrauma Research ...
  • NSW Roads and Traffic Authority $100,000
    Through the successful lobbying of SCA, the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority has given $50,000 pa over two years (2002-2003) to the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney. Chief...
  • Walter & Eliza Hall Institue and Queensland Brain Institute $90,000
    Dr Rodney Rietze research titled Repairing the damaged nervous system by activating resident stem cells in the nervous system to make new nerve cells was conducted at the Walter and Eliza Hall...
  • Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute $50,000
    Project titled Structural plasticity of the damaged spinal cord undertaken by Assoc Prof Glenda Halliday, Dr Janet Keast and Prof Elspeth McLachlan at the Spinal Injuries Research Centre, Prince of...
  • University of Newcastle $20,000
    Prof Mike Calford's project titled Neuronal cell differentiation in the adult brain was generously funded by The Profield Foundation (2000).
  • Walter & Eliza Hall Institute $40,000
    Chief Investigator Dr Ann Turnley received $20,000 pa over two years at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1999-2000)