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šāāļø Run the TCS Sydney Marathon with Team Arrow ā Charity Places Now Available! šāāļø The TCS Sydney Marathon, now a World Marathon Major candidate event, continues to grow in prestige and popularity ā and this year, demand for entries…
Arrowās bespoke fundraising campaign, Paint the Town Red, has been another big success in 2025, just in its second year of running. Each year the campaign grows stronger, and this September during Blood Cancer Awareness month, it raised over $30,000…
Our next webinar is on soon, and weād love you to join us! We will be in conversation with Clinical Nurse Consultant Sally Anderson from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. She will be giving us an insight into the…
Join Lisa Cuthbertson for this year’s Funk Off 40+ Party, and help her Paint the Town Red for Arrow! It will be a (respectably early) night of disco dancing, and will feature iconic drag queen Connie Cartier. When: Sunday 9th…
Graham Lewis insists that āfun runā is most definitely an oxymoron, and that thereās nothing fun about it, especially when the weather is cold and miserable.Ā And cold and miserable it was when Graham completed this year, only the third…
In August this year, the Australia and New Zealand meeting of the International Society of Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT ANZ) was held in Manly, and we are pleased to have been able to help Siow Teng attend.Ā Siow Teng…
Laura Garbo recently completed her first major Marathon, an incredible achievement made even more meaningful by her decision to run in support of Arrow, raising over $2,000 for stem cell transplant patients. The Arrow cause is close to Laura’s heart,…
St Vincentās Hospital Sydney has marked a remarkable milestone: the 50th anniversary of Australiaās very first bone marrow transplant. The commemoration began with Associate Professor Anthony Dodds, who reflected on that groundbreaking moment in 1975 when the first bone marrow…
The Murdoch Childrenās Research Institute (MCRI) have recently concluded an excellent piece of research into what matters most to those dealing with paediatric stem cell transplants, and we are proud to have played some small part in that project through…
Meet Laura McMahon, acting Clinical Nurse Educator at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre at St Vincentās Hospital in Sydney. Laura knows a lot about apheresis. And not just as a nurse. Roughly a decade ago, back in Ireland, Lauraās own brother…
Our next webinar is on soon, and weād love you to join us! We will be in conversation with Lisa Smith, CEO of Stem Cell Donors Australia (formerly Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry) and Dr Hung Yang, also from Stem…
100 years of life What does 100 years of life look like after a bone marrow transplant? It looks like Lisa, Jonathon, and Kerrin ā three extraordinary Australians whoāve not only survived bone marrow transplants, but have gone on to…
This year our Fundraising Manager, Kags Garrard, was joined by colleagues and friends to form Team Arrow, as they took on the 2025 City 2 Surf. Below, Kags reflects on a successful day: Last weekend, I laced up my running…
Our scholarships for healthcare professionals will be accepting applications from 1st to 30th September 2025. We have opportunities available for nurses and allied healthcare professionals working in the field of bone marrow and stem cell transplant. We are pleased to…
Jenny Nixon is no slouch. Sheās a mother to two sets of twins, who she raised as a single mum from when they were six and three years old, and is a proud grandmother to four. She runs her own…
At the heart of Liverpool Catholic Club is community. The club itself boasts a range of amenities all designed to bring people together: to eat, be entertained, skate, get fit, host functions and parties, keep the kids entertainedā¦ In short,…
Arrow is fortunate to have people taking on all sorts of challenges to raise money for our patient support program. Charlotte Pinney is one of them. Here’s her story in her own words: This year, I will be running in…
Join us on Thursday 31st July as we join forces with Simmo and attempt to set a record for the most blood donations in a single day through a single team. Ā We’ve arranged for any blood (or plasma) donations…
In 2016, Freya received an Arrow scholarship to support her studies in the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing. At the time, she couldnāt have imagined just how far that opportunity would take her. With a genuine passion for people and…
We’re delighted to share that Ritika Saxena, one of our recent Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship recipients, has now submitted her PhD dissertation (entitled Improving the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into functional haematopoietic stem cells, called āiHSCsā) at…