Our history

• Founded as The Spinal cord Society of Australia in 1998
• 1999 implemented fund raising activities to support local research laboratories
• 2000 established the National Lions Spinal Cord Fellowship
• 2005 established a national Scientific Advisory Panel
• 2007 recognised by the Department of Health and Aging as the peer group to conduct translational spinal cord injury research
• 2007 successful bid, two Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative projects (total $1.44 million over 3 years
• 2008 reorganised as StepAhead Australia with the focus being to enable clinical trials in chronic spinal cord injury
• 2008-2009 established an International Clinical Advisory Board
• 2009 established a research administrative office and translational research laboratory in the Centre for Clinical Neurosciences and Neurological Research at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Here’s where you come in.

We need your help
to speed things along.

We need your support to continue to connect the world’s leading researchers and clinicians with spinal cord patients and their families to remove the barriers and find a solution today and not tomorrow.

That’s the
StepAhead Australia
challenge to you.