Lead the field
We provide national leadership for spinal cord injury research and treatment strategy, setting shared priorities across institutions.
Australia & New Zealand · Established 2010
Communicate. Collaborate. Cure.
We bring researchers, clinicians and people living with spinal cord injury into one alliance — turning discovery into recovery, faster and more safely.
15+years connecting science and lived experience across the region
What we do
One network, three commitments
Spinal cord injury changes life in an instant. Our work is built to change what happens next — through leadership, better trials, and research that reaches real clinical care.
Strengthen trials
We help design and coordinate clinical trials so that promising treatments are tested rigorously, ethically and at scale.
Translate evidence
We move findings out of the lab and into everyday practice, so the people who need them feel the benefit sooner.
Our vision
More than research
The Network is an alliance of leading researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience and committed supporters. Together we work to fast-track safe, effective treatments and to improve quality of life at every stage after injury.
Recovery is rarely the work of one team alone. By sharing knowledge openly and coordinating effort across Australia and New Zealand, we make each discovery count for more.
Read our storyCommunicate, collaborate, cure. Three words that describe how we work — and what we are working toward.
By the numbers
A community larger than any single lab
15+years of collaboration
2nations, one shared mission
5research priority areas
100sof clinicians & researchers linked
Find your way in
Where would you like to start?
Trials & evidence
Understand how spinal cord injury trials are designed, governed and shared across the region.
Facts & support
Clear information, a support directory and answers to common questions about life after injury.
Give & get involved
Donate, fundraise or lend your expertise to help bring effective treatments closer.
Stand with us
Help turn discovery into recovery
Every contribution moves research from possibility to practice. Join the network as a supporter, a volunteer or a partner.