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“This wouldn’t have been possible without Arrow and the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship,” says Charlotte Anderson who has just completed her Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing through the Australian College of Nursing. Charlotte was awarded the scholarship in early…

Season 2 of Transplant Talk LIVE is here, and this month Yvonne Panek-Hudson talks with Karen Maddock and Sam Van Der Linde all about the nitty gritty of actually making CAR T cells and preparing patients for their CAR T therapy….

Can we all just agree that 250km is a long way to paddle? Most of us would be so daunted by the thought of paddling that far that we would choose to do something else over our summer break, like…

You don’t expect to have to wear nappies and learn to walk again when you’ve been successfully adulting for decades. And you don’t expect to follow that up with having to watch your 19-year-old learn to walk again either. But…

We currently have two travel and conference scholarships open, so if you are planning on attending the next meeting of EBMT in Florence, Italy, we encourage you to submit your application by 31st January 2025. Please see our Travel &…

Thanks to the generous support of the Hartog family and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, we were able to help two dedicated health professionals attend the Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group meeting in Singapore: Simone Jensen (who received the Sylvia Hartog Nursing…

Regional nurses may not see many actual stem cell transplants happen, because most stem cell transplants are performed in our major capital cities. But that doesn’t mean that regional nurses aren’t involved in the process. Many of the patients and…

Join us as we launch our second season of our FREE webinar Transplant Talk LIVE. We are kicking off this season with a focus on CAR-T Therapy. Episode one will see our host Yvonne Panek-Hudson joined by Prof. Nada Hamad…

Katherine Robertson, pictured in 1999, not long before her diagnosis with acute lymphocytic leukaemia. Anne Robertson Anne Robertson was a refined lady, always impeccably presented, with a love for history and family. Anne had a love of the arts enjoying…

Arrow is fortunate to have been named a beneficiary of the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation’s fundraising efforts this year, and that means you could have another chance to win a brand new car! The raffle they’re running this year has…

We would be delighted to have you join us for the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation Annual General Meeting 2024. We will be presenting our financial position, and sharing with you all our major achievements for the year. We will…

We would like to congratulate Simone Jensen from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney on being awarded a Sylvia Hartog Scholarship to attend the Asia Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group (APBMT) meeting in Singapore. Simone is a highly skilled and…

Courtney Hughes’ pathway to her nursing career is not your average one, but then Courtney probably isn’t your average kind of girl. Courtney was leading an active life, busy working as a prison officer doing lots of physically demanding work…

Lisa Cuthbertson, bone transplant recipient and Transplant Games gold medalist is inviting you to join her to Paint the Town Red with her Funk Off 40+ party. If you’re over 40 and in the mood for a groove at the…

The people of the village together again at ANZTCT 2024 Earlier this month we had the privilege of partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) to present their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney. An…

In April we announced the four most recent recipients of our Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Conference Travel Scholarships, among them Emma Munro, from the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, & Priscilla Gates from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Emma & Priscilla both…

Paint the Town Red for Arrow this September to support bone marrow transplant patients across the country. All you need to do is host a red-themed fundraising event: Maybe grab your friends and go out on the town dressed…

Ritika Saxena, recipient of an Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship, is excited to be on the home stretch of her third and final year of her PhD candidature. Throughout Ritika’s PhD, she and her team of supervisors have been…

Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave…

“My bone marrow transplant was the worst and the best time of my life.” That’s how Jordan Lambropoulos describes her ground-breaking stem cell transplant now that she has another year of living under her belt. Bone marrow or stem cell…