The new book “Penguin Bloom: The odd little bird who saved a family” is a true story of hope and courage. It begins with a shocking accident, in which our friend and mother of three, Sam Bloom, suffers a near…
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Pedalling from Perth to Melbourne
In 2009 a fit, young Sam Berry was involved in a terrible bicycle accident that left him with five broken vertebrae and just a “paper-width” between full recovery and never being able to walk again. Thankfully for Sam, it was…
“Exciting discovery” could lead to new treatments for acute SCI
Rapid treatment with a new anti-inflammatory could have a major impact on recovery from spinal cord injury, University of Queensland researchers have found.
Travel Grant awarded to Chris Turner
Working under Dr Lachlan Thompson at the Florey Institute, Christopher Turner is in the third year of his PhD studies. His project involves stem cell based therapies for the regrowth of neurons in spinal cord injury focusing on the survival and integration…
A visit from the Macarthur Lions
Recently we received a very welcome visit from friends from the MacArthur Lions Club who have been great supporters for many years. With them they brought a cheque for the tidy sum of $9000 – the proceeds from the last SpinalCure Golf…
Valentine's Day flowers
The above image provides a snapshot of neural precursor cells (pink and yellow) in a mouse embryo that will mature into different types of spinal cord neurons (blue), depending on the signals they receive. By studying the molecular instructions that…
Xander cycled 1000Km
and raised $20,000
Remembering Ricky Banister
Our condolences goes out to Ricky Bannister’s family and friends. Ricky fractured his C5 vertebrae on the 15th April 2013 after a horse riding accident. After 1 year and 6 months of fighting severe health issues Ricky sadly passed away,…
MacArthur Lions Annual SpinalCure Golf Day 2014
The sun shone on the beautiful Camden Valley Resort golf course for this year’s SpinalCure golf day. The morning’s 4-person Ambrose competition was punctuated by the crack of another ball hammered down the fairway by Australian long drive champion Mark…
UCSD seeks spinal injury patients for 5-year stem cell test
The UC San Diego Health System has put out a call for eight spinal cord injury patients to take part in a five-year test of the safety of a new treatment involving neural stem cell research. The researchers need patients…