Spinal Research and the RFU’s Injured Players Foundation (IPF) have further strengthened their partnership aimed at improving the lives of those paralysed after a spinal cord injury.
The IPF, which supports players who have sustained life-changing injuries playing rugby union in England, has extended its current three-year funded partnership with Spinal Research for a further three years.
The initiative will support investment in innovative spinal cord stimulation research and will help further develop the recently formed Spinal Cord Injury Research Collaborative (SPARC).
This brings together researchers, clinicians and potential funders to accelerate advancements to get ground-breaking new therapies from the lab to the people who need them.
SPARC is led by Spinal Research, the UK’s leading charity funding and supporting research around the world to discover, develop and deliver new treatments for those living daily with the devastating consequences of a spinal cord injury.
Over the last three years, IPF funding has enabled Spinal Research to appoint a dedicated Clinical Research Network Manager for SPARC and to establish the formal structures needed to drive its work.
Spinal Research Chief Exec