Tom Elphick was an aspiring professional dancer and overseas student at Codarts University in Rotterdam with a promising and exciting career ahead of him. He was coming to the end of his degree and had just landed a great position…
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Lloyd’s donate to SpinalCure as part of their covid response
SpinalCure was recently nominated by Lloyds Australia to receive a donation as part of Lloyd’s global charitable response to COVID-19. We are delighted to share that we have now received a very welcome donation of $53,000! To date, 197 charities…
Non-traumatic spinal cord injury: Barbara’s story
Non-traumatic spinal cord injury occurs when the spinal cord is damaged by something other than major trauma. Many medical issues can lead to these injuries. In fact things like tumours and degenerative disorders are the leading cause of SCIs in…
CatWalk – Our partners in New Zealand
New Zealand based CatWalk is our featured collaborative organisation this month! CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust was founded by Catriona Williams MNZM in 2005, one of New Zealand’s leading international equestrian riders. A riding accident in 2002 left her a…
Bradley Trevor Greive
Bradley Trevor Greive AM (BTG) wrote the best-seller Penguin Bloom, The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family, as well as the new book Sam Bloom, Heartache & Birdsong. For four years he researched spinal cord injury (SCI) and spent…
ABC Podcast: Sam Bloom and Prof Sylvia Gustin discuss SCI and cutting-edge research
SpinalCure Ambassador talks about her journey and her hopes for the future. She is joined by Prof Sylvia Gustin who recently received $2.5million from the $15m SCI research fund that SpinalCure secured in the 2019/20 NSW state budget. Prof Gustin…
Community Ambassador of the Year
The Community Ambassador of the Year competition has been developed to identify people who are actively supporting and promoting SpinalCure values, such as bringing awareness of spinal cord injury, supporting or funding cure-related research, and/or participating in activities that aim to raise funds.
NSW Minister Hazzard and Treasurer Perrottet announce the successful applications for the NSW Government’s $15m investment in SCI research.
SpinalCure was pleased to initiate and work with the NSW Government to establish this $15million grant round. Fifteen applications were received by the NSW Office of Health and Medical Research and assessed by an international panel of SCI researchers. The…
SpinalCure supporter Headlands Distilling Co, steps up to help fight COVID-19
Towards the end of last year we posted a story about Headlands Distilling Co. and the support they have given SpinalCure Australia to fund spinal cord injury research. One of Headlands’ founders, Dean Martelozzo, is a paraplegic so our quest…
Facebook live chat with Dr Sachin Shetty
Our sincere thanks to Dr Sachin Shetty MBBS, MD(PMR), FAFRM(RACP), FFPM(ANZCA), Director of the Spinal Injuries Unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital, for presenting a Facebook Live Chat discussing concerns regarding SCI and covid-19. Dr Shetty spoke for 40…