Gandevia founded the Motor Impairment Program at Neuroscience Research Australia, an initiative designed to research and treat a range of motor impairments. He serves as the Project Coordinator for the programme, which is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. The goal of this initiative is to address gaps in existing knowledge about the pathways leading to motor impairment. Gandevia and his team have designed the program to focus mainly on three areas: muscle contraction, fatigue, and impaired balance. With his team, Gandevia has conducted the largest study examining physiological factors contributing to falls in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He has also compiled the first description of the three-dimensional changes that occur when muscles contract. Since its inception in 2014, the project has published over 150 manuscripts in journals including The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Physiology. Gandevia has also developed the Upper Limb Physiological Profile Assessment, a screening tool used to identify motor impairments.
