Leukaemia cells in disguise
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 what he is looking at. Dr Michael Ashby, haematologist at Alfred Health and one of […]
In at the deep end: Rhys Hibbert’s first ever Canoe Classic
“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 from Windsor to Mooney Mooney along the majestic Hawkesbury River: an ultra-marathon paddling event. And […]
Another $4,500 donation from Wennie’s paddling!
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 recently he decided to take on another big challenge to raise money for Arrow: A […]
Liverpool Catholic Club supports our latest PhD Scholar’s GvHD Research
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 Liverpool Catholic Club Arrow PhD Scholarship, providing a $50,000 contribution to our PhD Scholarship program. […]
EBMT Travel scholarship recipients 2025
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 […]
Tandem 2025 with Barbara O’Callaghan
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. […]
Arrow’s 2025 PhD Scholar: Cathy Pendergrast
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 lung disease, otherwise known as pulmonary graft v. host disease (pGvHD). This risk is particularly […]
Stacey’s Story: A Mother’s Journey through Andre’s GATA2 Deficiency and Transplant
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 in the production of your blood cells. And, like young Andre, you can be deficient […]
Arrow Masters Scholarship Recipients 2025
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 […]
Driscoll Scholarship supports nursing career development
“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 […]
Paddling 250km for BMT patients
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 watch the cricket, perhaps. Not so Wennie van Lint. Wennie is a long-term supporter of […]
Living with Multiple Myeloma – Aamu’s story
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 that’s what happened to Aamu. It all began with chronic back pain with no apparent […]