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Category: Media releases

Category: Media releases

Applying the electrodes

Funding Injection for Medical Research Offers New Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Posted on: April 10, 2023 Categorized in: Media releases
MEDIA RELEASE Funding Injection for Medical Research Offers New Hope for Spinal Cord Injury Patients The Australian Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has announced $6M in funding for Project Spark, an Australian medical research collaboration that is developing…
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Tommy Little presents over $100,000 to Project Spark

Media Release: Tommy Little hands over $103,520 cheque for world-leading experimental therapy for spinal cord injury

Posted on: December 06, 2022 Categorized in: News, Supporters, Media releases
Sydney, 6 December 2022 Today, Comedian and Presenter Tommy Little handed over a cheque for $103,520 to Project Spark, a partnership between Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), SpinalCure and Spinal Cord Injuries Australia that has the potential to improve the lives…
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A Prof Marc Ruitenberg (centre) with Dr John and Mrs Joy Yeo

A Prof Marc Ruitenberg receives prestigious Churchill Fellowship

Posted on: December 02, 2022 Categorized in: News, Research, Media releases
Our heartfelt congratulations to Associate Professor Marc Ruitenberg from the University of Queensland’s School of Biomedical Sciences on being awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship. Dr Ruitenberg and his team are using the latest advances in single-cell and spatial sequencing technologies…
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Victorian Jockeys’ Association backs spinal injury research

Posted on: June 07, 2022 Categorized in: News, Media releases
Media release 1 June 2022 Download this media release here. The Victorian Jockeys’ Association (VJA) is backing research for a cure for spinal cord injury, with a generous donation this week to SpinalCure, Australia’s leading funder of cure-related research for…
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End the ‘do nothing’ decade for seniors with disabilities

Posted on: May 31, 2022 Categorized in: News, Media releases
JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT AUSTRALIAN DISABILITY & AGED CARE ORGANISATIONS It’s time to end a decade of inaction over support for seniors with disabilities. Right now, people over 65 with significant disabilities are denied the same care, support and services delivered…
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Minister Hunt accepts 30,000-strong petition & creates history-making $10m neurostimulation grant

Posted on: April 05, 2022 Categorized in: News, Research, Media releases
Video by @cambloom Join us on the Project Spark journey and support our campaign to transform the lives of people with spinal cord injury. Read the full story: On Wednesday 30 March, Minister Greg Hunt accepted SpinalCure Australia’s 30,000-strong petition…
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Walk on book cover with David Prast smiling on front

Pioneering work of quadriplegic recognised in book ten years after his death

Posted on: March 10, 2022 Categorized in: News, Personal stories, Media releases
The life of a remarkable quadriplegic from Perth who introduced an innovative model of exercise rehabilitation to Australia and helped pioneer research – which is now leading to spinal injured people gaining movement and even walking again – has been…
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Ed Cummings kneeling between Sam Bloom in wheelchair and Lauren Park in wheelchair

Ed Cummings supports petition to fund new spinal cord injury research

Posted on: February 08, 2022 Categorized in: News, Media releases
More than 20,000 Australians live with a spinal cord injury, and SpinalCure Australia, with support from Ed Cummings and the Australian Jockeys’ Association, have launched a petition calling on the Federal Government to fund a nation-wide research project that could…
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Physiotherapist with trial participant

Landmark trial aims to help people with spinal cord injury walk again

Posted on: June 02, 2021 Categorized in: News, Research, Media releases, Current clinical trials
Wednesday 2 June, Sydney, Australia: Australian researchers are embarking on a landmark international trial which aims to help people with spinal cord injury walk again. Led by researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and primarily funded by SpinalCure Australia and…
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