Listen to SCSNZ Clinical Research Director, Dr Jim Faed, interviewed on National Radio’s 9 to Noon programme, 2 November 2011.

A pioneering treatment for people paralysed with spinal cord injuries is now in the early stages of a clinical trial in New Zealand. Paralysed people with spinal cord injuries are being called to take part.

The clinical trial is the first of its type in the world. It is also the first of several trials that are being planned by the Spinal Cord Society of New Zealand’s team of doctors and scientists.

Approval to conduct the first clinical trial has been approved for the public by the required medical authority in New Zealand, the Multiregion Ethics Committee.