Mission

nsif is a charity committed to funding research and development into curing spinal cord injury. We believe SCI can become a treatable condition and the scientists we fund are making incredible breakthroughs. 

Category

Health

Additional Information

nsif funds cutting-edge research into treating spinal cord injury. We fund a collaborative project between a team of scientists at the Institute of Neurology at University College London and a clinical team led by Dr. Pawel Tabakow, of Wroclaw Medical University in Poland. See the BBC's coverage of the science here. nsif was founded by chef David Nicholls after his 18-year-old son Daniel became paralysed from the neck down. Aged 18 and on his gap year, Daniel was swimming between the safety flags on Bondi beach when he dived into a wave, hit a hidden sandbank that lay beneath and broke his neck. Traumatised by the sight of his young son unable to move, as well as the other young people with paralysis in the hospital, David told Dan he would do everything possible to get him walking again. He made this promise to Dan without realising that paralysis was “incurable”. So nsif was born with a very specific purpose: to fund research and development into a cure for paralysis.That was the first step in an incredible journey that we hope will radically improve the lives of people with SCI in the future.