Category: Healthcare Provider stories

Celebrating Collaboration, Community and the Launch of Paint the Town Red Arrow was proud to again be a partner of the 2025 ANZTCT Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), held this year on the beautiful Gold Coast. Now in its third year, the ASM continues to grow in size and impact, welcoming more than 300 healthcare professionals […]

Meet Laura McMahon, acting Clinical Nurse Educator at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Laura knows a lot about apheresis. And not just as a nurse. Roughly a decade ago, back in Ireland, Laura’s own brother needed a stem cell transplant, and Laura became his donor. At the time, Laura was […]

In 2016, Freya received an Arrow scholarship to support her studies in the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing. At the time, she couldn’t have imagined just how far that opportunity would take her. With a genuine passion for people and an eagerness to learn, Freya’s career has since flourished. She has gone from scholarship to […]

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 will help fund Sherry as she completes the Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing through the […]

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 matters, and because it makes a difference. By sending a healthcare professional to a conference, […]

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 Brien – Donor and Search Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Nicola Roborgh […]

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, to allied health professionals — will go on to do great things in the field […]

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 Jazz Pharmaceuticals Travel Award to Barbara O’Callaghan from Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. […]

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 offer this award, we receive an impressive array of applicants, and this year is no […]

“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 2024, and has just been in touch with us to share her excellent results, including […]

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 Award) and Jessica Cheng (Jazz Pharmaceuticals Award). Simone says that she is grateful to both […]

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 in Brisbane. This annual conference, hosted by the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand […]