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CURE PARALYSIS

in our lifetime

Working at the cutting edge of robotics, neuro-modulation, AI, and Brain Machine Interfaces, Mark has catalysed over $150 million in neurotech projects by applying his Unbreakable Framework.

Paralysis strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human. It’s not just the lack of feeling and movement, it also interferes with the body’s internal systems that are designed to keep people alive. Multiple infections, neuropathic pain and uncontrollable spasms are common. These are the things that exhaust even the most determined. And, along with fundamentally impacting quality of life, it comes with €4 million average lifetime cost of care, there are huge barriers to getting back to work, and premature death is inevitable.

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Collaborative Cures

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Up to 60 million people

Everything we do at Collaborative Cures is about bringing people together to cure paralysis in our lifetime. We’re focused on creating a public benefit for up to 60 million people around the world who suffer from some form of paralysis.

Paralysis strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human.

It’s not just the lack of feeling and movement, it also interferes with the body’s internal systems that are designed to keep people alive. Multiple infections, neuropathic pain and uncontrollable spasms are common. These are the things that exhaust even the most determined. And, along with fundamentally impacting quality of life, it comes with €4 million average lifetime cost of care, there are huge barriers to getting back to work, and premature death is inevitable.

$1 billion Strategy Catalyse collaborations worth $1 billion by connecting scientists and technologists with business know how, regulatory expertise and capital.
50 to 10 yrs Strategy Reduce 50-year scientific translation timelines to 10 years by creating the conditions for collaboration, facilitating healthy rivalries and building trust.

Bringing people together

Co-creating research insights with an interdisciplinary knowledge network of leadership experts, negotiation practitioners, performance psychologists and behavioural scientists to understand how to tackle systematic fragmentation while exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide to test experimental therapies.

Explorers have a desire to make sense of the unknown. I believe that that spirit of exploration is held deep within us all.

Mark Pollock

We need to expand the clinical toolbox available for people with spinal cord injury and other diseases.

Dr. V. Reggie Edgerton, PhD, Professor at University of California, Los Angeles

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