Category: Research Stories
We’re delighted to share that Ritika Saxena, one of our recent Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship recipients, has now submitted her PhD dissertation (entitled Improving the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into functional haematopoietic stem cells, called ‘iHSCs’) at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“When someone has acute myeloid leukaemia, nothing else matters. If we don’t fix the leukaemia, well… nothing else will be a problem for much longer either.” That’s Michael Ashby, our newest PhD Scholarship recipient, doctor, researcher, father of three, marathon…
You’ve probably heard some people say that they’re having a bone marrow transplant and others say they’re having a stem cell transplant, but what’s the difference between those two things? Let’s start with a few definitions. Bone marrow Bone marrow is a spongy…
Congratulations to Dr Michael Ashby of Alfred Health who has been awarded the Arrow HSANZ PhD Scholarship for 2024 for his research into “Preventing Acute Myeloid Leukaemia relapse following allogeneic stem cell transplant.” About the study: Michael’s PhD project will…
Since we last met Adam Bryant in 2008, he has come full circle in both his career and his travels of the world. We start at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney It was in 2008 that Adam was awarded an Arrow…
Youer than You: we love to be individuals! We all like to think of ourselves as unique, as being a “one off”. Even Dr Seuss celebrated our individuality in his famous line “There is no one alive who is youer…
We are excited to announce the extension of the Arrow/Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship for Ritika Saxena for another year so that she can continue with her ground-breaking research into the generation of haematopoietic stem cells, or HSCs as they…
We are pleased to announce our new partnership and PhD scholarship program in collaboration with the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ). HSANZ is a collaborative network of haematology members with a vision to transform the lives of…
We are proud to learn that Ritika Saxena has recently been named the Study Melbourne International Student of the Year for Research. Congratulations Ritika on a well-deserved award! Professor Andrew Elefanty of The Blood Diseases Laboratory at Murdoch Children’s Research…
There has been a lot of press coverage lately about bone marrow transplants and stem cell therapies, from politicians calling for an overhaul of the way Australians can register to become bone marrow donors, to heartbreaking stories of life-saving bone…
A new drug treatment has been discovered by the team at St Vincent’s Hospital to help cure Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). Acute Myeloid Leukaemia unfortunately has the highest mortality rate of any blood cancer and affects 1,000 Australians every year. …
The GAMBIT medical research program being undertaken by the Blood Stem Cell and Cancer Research Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, is the largest study of it’s kind. A population-based study of blood mutations in Australian adults GAMBIT researches the…
Introducing Ritika Saxena, the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholar for 2022! Ritika Saxena has been awarded this year’s Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD scholarship for her stem cell research project aiming to help patients with blood cancers or bone marrow failure….
While driven by a passion for research, life for a PhD student can often mean living on a shoestring budget which can be tough. That is why PhD student Alexander Martyn was ecstatic to hear in 2014 that he was…
In 2019 Michael Papadimitrious was awarded his PhD from the University of Sydney for his research into the use of dendritic cells to elicit an anti cancer immune response against certain blood cancers. This research was made possible thanks to…
With the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (HCC), one of Arrow’s major annual fundraising events, due to be held later this year, we are delighted to announce this year’s winner of our HCC sponsored PhD scholarship: Natalia Pinello, from the Epigenetics and…