A small number of media reports have incorrectly claimed Australian of the Year and Professor Alan Mackay-Sim was directly involved in the surgery that enabled a previously paralysed man to regain use of his legs.
That surgery was conducted by Dr Pawel Tabakow in Poland in 2014.
The work of Dr Pawel Tabakow is to be applauded as a very significant advancement in spinal cord injury repair. His colleague Professor Geoffrey Raisman was the first to use olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation for spinal cord injury repair in animals. Professor Mackay-Sim continues to acknowledge their contributions.
It is without dispute that Professor Alan Mackay-Sim’s research and clinical trials between 2002 and 2008 paved the way for the ongoing work being done today in the study and development of stem cell transplantation.
Human clinical trials are critical milestones in research development for which Professor Mackay-Sim is acknowledged as leading by the worldwide scientific community. Dr Tabakow
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