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Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship for Haematology and Related Nursing Thank you to Mrs Jan Driscoll and family, for their ongoing commitment to supporting transplant nurses wishing to enhance their nursing skills through further education. The following transplant nurses have…
The Allan Frenkel Foundation has brought comfort to patients and their carers in their time of need by funding vital support services for over two decades. Over the past 21 years, the Foundation has supported a clinical trial for PUVA…
As relatively new staff members, we’ve often wondered how and when the tremendous partnership between the HCC and Arrow began. And last week, whilst looking through some old files, we were lucky enough to unearth some solid evidence. The HCC…
We are pleased to award Arrow / HCC scholarship funding to Natalia Pinello from The Centenary Institute, providing approximately $13,000 per year towards her PhD project until 2021. Natalia wrote: The DNA in all of the cells in our body…
The vital work of Arrow / HCC research scientist, Dr Tim Molloy, and projects undertaken by Arrow / HCC PhD scholarship students will continue to improve treatments for bone marrow transplant patients thanks to a $93,000 donation from Arrow’s major…
My brother, Marcus Shepherd, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) in 1982 (age 32). He had his initial chemotherapy and went into remission in New Zealand, prior to further evaluation and consultation at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Luckily, I…
Arrow Chairman, Mark O’Hara, and CEO Robyn Flood attended the official opening of the St Vincent’s Haematology, Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit on behalf of the many Arrow supporters who helped Arrow raise the $300,000 needed to fund a room…
Imagine cooking lunch for over 80 people including three types of curries, sandwiches, cakes and cookies and then, a few days later, taking on the 14km City2Surf. That’s exactly what the AMP Technology and Operations team did, and they raised…
So far this year, Arrow has supported more than 40 transplant patients and their families with grocery expenses. To help us provide this valuable support, Woolworths is now partnering with us and has generously donated $30,000 in Woolworths Gift Cards. When…
Arrow is pleased to announce that Vicki and Michael Quigley have donated $1 million to Arrow to support the research work of Professor David Ma, Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. When Arrow was established…
A year after losing Allan to Acute Lymphatic Leukaemia, his family hosted a dinner to raise funds for teens with cancer, with a focus on patient support. The Allan Frenkel Foundation has since held a fundraising dinner in Allan’s memory…
Arrow/HCC Research Scientist 2017 report In 2017 Dr Melinda Tursky continued her research in targeting genes which drive the progression from normal to cancerous blood cells in the Blood Stem Cell and Cancer Research Programme, St Vincent’s Centre for Applied…