When Bianca thinks back to the year her daughter Addison underwent treatment for Severe Aplastic Anaemia, she says simply: “I didn’t live in the real world for a year. A whole year, missing in action.” For families facing bone marrow…
Poppy Pickett has had more than a lifetime’s worth of medical poking and prodding, with transfusion after transfusion, endless visits to hospitals and specialists, and months in isolation. And she’s only five years old. Poppy was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia…
We’re pleased to be able to support the continuing education of Sherry Jia, a nurse from the Cancer Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Sherry is the most recent recipient of the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship which…
Why does a charity invest in sending nurses and allied health professionals and researchers to conferences, especially international conferences like the 51st EBMT (formerly the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation) Scientific Meeting, recently held in Florence? Because it…
Thursday 7th November 2002 is a day Serina Dosen will never forget. It’s the day she received her new stem cells, and a second chance at life. But it’s also the day she began her “new normal” life, with a…
This month, we were honored to receive a generous donation of $31,953 from ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation, presented to our Fundraising Manager, Kags Garrard, by Barbara Colvin and Gerard Doyle from the ASX Foundation. This incredible donation reflects a full…
It’s time to pop the (non-alcoholic) champagne and say a big THANK YOU to Dry July and everyone who participated to support Arrow in the 2024 campaign. It was our first ever Dry July here at Arrow, and we were…
We’re pleased to announce that five healthcare professionals have received Arrow travel & conference scholarships, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals Australia, to attend conferences within Australia dedicated to bone marrow and stem cell transplant and cellular therapies. Congratulations to: Maureen O…
When is a leukaemia cell not like a leukaemia cell? When it’s pretending to be a superhero and hiding in plain sight. And that’s what Michael Ashby’s research is about. Not superhero disguises exactly, but it’s a good analogy for…
“We’d only kayaked at night once before. And that was by accident.” That’s not a sentence you expect to hear from someone who has just done their first ever Canoe Classic. The Hawkesbury Classic Paddle is a 111km overnight paddle…
Meagan Clark* is a university lecturer, married, with two kids – all the usual stuff – and considers herself incredibly privileged. But despite her apparent advantages in life, she still struggled with the blows dealt to her and her family…
Wennie van Lint isn’t one to give up easily, and we’re extremely grateful for that, because we’ve just received another $4,500 donation from Wennie’s paddling adventures! You might recall Wennie. We’ve told you about his support of Arrow before. Most…
Liverpool Catholic Club has been a strong supporter of Arrow for many years now, donating over $500,000 to support medical research and also our patient support program. And now, the club has decided to extend that support to create the…
Our travel scholarships continue to attract high calibre applicants, which might make the selection process a little hard sometimes, but also makes announcing the recipients a great joy, because we know these health care professionals — from nurses, to researchers,…
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…
