The annual Tandem meeting is an excellent event for education, networking and research relating to transplantation, CAR-T and other cellular therapies. Tandem 2025 was held in Honolulu in February, and we were pleased to have been able to offer a…

Congratulations to Cathy Pendergrast, Arrow’s PhD Scholar for 2025! Cathy’s research interest is in graft v. host disease of the lungs. While a stem cell transplant is a successful treatment for many people, there is a significant risk of rejection-related…

GATA2. It sounds like something from a SciFi movie, doesn’t it? Perhaps the name of a newly colonised planet, or a space station or something. But no. It’s a protein that regulates gene expression and it plays a key role…

We are proud to announce that this year, we have expanded our Master’s Scholarship Program to award two scholarships, so that two outstanding nurses can continue their specialisation in bone marrow and stem cell transplant patient care. Each time we…

Angela Allardyce has joined the Arrow team as our new Patient Liaison Officer. Welcome Angela! Over the past few years we have been working hard to reach more bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients around the country, and we…

“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…

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…

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…

In a commitment to advancing the education and professional development of nurses in the haematology field, the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation, in collaboration with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, proudly offered eight nursing professionals travel scholarships to attend the 2024 Blood Conference…

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…

Victoria Okey is a Registered Nurse at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where she has worked in haematology and oncology for the past four years. As a graduate nurse, Victoria gained vital experience caring for acutely unwell patients on the oncology…

Arrow’s board members pictured L to R: Stuart Snell, Kim Mouret, Yvonne Panek-Hudson, Richelle Koller (CEO), David Maywald, Chris Murray, Roberto Trinchero Last week, we gathered for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 at our rooms in Chippendale headquarters, and…

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…

The Vital Role of Pro Bono Partners in Supporting Our Charity’s Mission At the core of every successful charity lies a network of dedicated partners who provide crucial support, allowing us to focus on our mission of helping those in…

The 2024 Hawkesbury Classic Paddle, held over the weekend, marked a successful 45th edition with 107 paddlers participating. Organized by the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic Association Inc., the event is a charity fundraiser for medically-based organizations, and this year, it raised…

At Arrow, we are incredibly grateful to the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation for their unwavering support of Australian-based children, disability, and medical research charities. Through a variety of fundraising events and auctions, the Foundation has raised over $36 million, making…

This year we launched our inaugural Paint the Town Red campaign, and had people painting the town red the whole of September during Blood Cancer Awareness month. In fact, there was some kind of event happening each and every week…

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…