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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 need. One of the most invaluable forms of support we receive comes from pro bono […]

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 $50,000 for the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation. Over its 30-year history, the event has […]

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 a significant difference in the lives of many. We are proud to be one of […]

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 to help support bone marrow and stem cell patients across the country. What a fabulous […]

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 long-serving nurse, and has been invited by the APBMT scientific committee as a guest speaker […]

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 leading bush regeneration projects with crews of inmates, and on top of that doing Crossfit […]

The people of the village together again at ANZTCT 2024 Earlier this month we had the privilege of partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) to present their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney. An amazing group of brilliant minds dedicated to treating people who need a bone marrow or […]

In April we announced the four most recent recipients of our Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Conference Travel Scholarships, among them Emma Munro, from the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital,  & Priscilla Gates from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Emma & Priscilla both attended the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Conference in Lille, France. MASCC […]

Ritika Saxena, recipient of an Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship, is excited to be on the home stretch of her third and final year of her PhD candidature. Throughout Ritika’s PhD, she and her team of supervisors have been busy working on ways to generate blood stem cells in the lab that can potentially […]

Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave both an oral and a poster presentation, attended the Canada-Australia-New Zealand-United Kingdom Transplant and Cellular […]

“My bone marrow transplant was the worst and the best time of my life.” That’s how Jordan Lambropoulos describes her ground-breaking stem cell transplant now that she has another year of living under her belt. Bone marrow or stem cell transplants are nothing new, so what makes Jordy’s transplant so ground-breaking? Well, as far as […]

In 2023 Trista from Wallace Wilkinson and Webster made the lifesaving decision to donate her bone marrow to an unknown recipient in the UK. A year later she received a letter of gratitude from the lady she helped and her family. This generous act of kindness inspired Trista’s work colleagues to make a donation to […]