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Meet NSW Young Australian of the Year for 2024 Nikhil Autar! We’re thrilled to announce Nikhil Autar, NSW Young Australian of the Year 2024, as the guest on the first of our patient webinar series called “Transplant Talk Live“. Join…
Arrow’s newsletter, “Transplant Talk” is going live. Join us for a series of patient webinars with expert guests covering topics such as returning to work after bone marrow/stem cell transplant, survivorship, dealing with graft v. host disease, and much more….
The ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Golf Classic is on again from 22nd to 23rd February 2024. Some features include: – Fully dressed Course and Clubhouse – Exciting activations on each hole to keep players fed, watered and entertained – Stunning…
Arrow is fortunate to have been named a beneficiary of the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation’s fundraising efforts this year, and you could win a new car! The raffle they’re running this year has a prize pool valued at over $29,000 with…
Register now for the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic: 26th-27th October 2024 The Hawkesbury Classic Paddle is a unique opportunity to pit yourself against the physical and mental hurdles thrown up by a 111km, overnight, paddle from Windsor to Mooney Mooney on…
How do doctors know what treatment is likely to help which patient? Data. And lots of it. Years, no decade after decade of it. While you probably won’t ever see a TV series with the likes of a dreamy Patrick…
A woman with a cat bite walks into a medical centre… No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, but what followed for Jackie was so surreal it felt like it could have been. She had been feeling fatigued…
Arrow offers several scholarships for nurses and other allied health professionals working in bone marrow transplant and related fields to travel to conferences and scientific meetings in Australia and internationally. The next round of travel scholarship applications open on 1st…
“How are you doing today?” It’s an innocuous question for most of us, something we ask often without really listening to the answer. But hardship can happen to anyone. “I’ll tell you on Tuesday,” was the answer I got when…
We are proud to have supported two nurses to attend Blood 2023, a haematology focused conference in Melbourne: Serafina Levak from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney who received the Shaun Rosen Scholarship and Kylie Sih from Royal Hobart Hospital who…
We gathered recently at the Arrow offices in Chippendale NSW for our Annual General Meeting. The Arrow AGM 2023 was an enjoyable evening spent with our members, supporters, directors and team and — judging by the level of noise with…
We would like to thank outgoing director Leonie Wilcox for her long standing role as board member of Arrow. Leonie joined the Arrow board in 2007 and over the past 16 years has volunteered her time and knowledge to support…
A big part of what we do here at Arrow is help build a strong community of support around bone marrow transplant patients. One of the ways we do that is to help BMT nurses attend conferences where they can…
The Allan Frenkel Foundation was born in 1997, the year Allan would have been 19. Allan Frenkel is described as joyful and happy young man, the life of the party, and always ready for fun. That’s how Allan’s family and…
Congratulations to Dr Michael Ashby of Alfred Health who has been awarded the Arrow HSANZ PhD Scholarship for 2024 for his research into “Preventing Acute Myeloid Leukaemia relapse following allogeneic stem cell transplant.” About the study: Michael’s PhD project will…
Ide Irwin, who has been a nurse on the Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney since 2018, thought she knew a lot about haematology nursing until, that is, she got part way through a Master…
After a three-year hiatus due to COVID in 2020 and again in 2021, and then the devastating floods of 2022, it was a pleasure to be able to attend the start of the 2023 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. And what a…
Applications for the 2024 Nursing Scholarships are now open. Are you a registered nurse, currently employed in the field of stem cell and bone marrow transplant? If you are considering further study in 2024, you may be eligible for one…
Since we last met Adam Bryant in 2008, he has come full circle in both his career and his travels of the world. We start at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney It was in 2008 that Adam was awarded an Arrow…
“Today of all days, Jen.” It had taken quite a bit of to-and-fro to arrange a time to speak with Des. He’s a busy man: playing golf, catching up with friends, enjoying concerts, and back in full time work after…