Where are they now? We catch up with past Arrow PhD Scholarship recipient Dr Adam Bryant
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 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD scholarship to help fund his work in molecular biology of leukaemia […]
Youer than you: An update on the Haploidentical Transplant Research Project
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 than you.” We love to think that we are little pieces of individuality with our […]
Ground-breaking research into the generation of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
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 are often called. There are two sources of cells for bone marrow or stem cell […]
Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation and HSANZ PhD Scholarship
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 all people with blood disorders. Arrow is also committed to improving the quality of life […]
International Student of the Year for Research: Ritika Saxena
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 Institute says of Ritika, “She’s very much a natural leader [with an] infectious enthusiasm” for […]
Haematopoietic Stem Cells are having their 15 minutes of fame.
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 marrow donations being left on the tarmac instead of being put on the plane bound […]
Promising new drug treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
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. Early research has discovered that their invention, which focuses on a small gene known as […]
GAMBIT medical research program
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 “Genomics of Aging-acquired Mutations in Blood to Identify Therapeutics for Cancer, Cardiopulmonary, Metabolic and Blood […]
Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholar 2022
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. After losing her grandmother to multiple myeloma (a cancer of plasma cells) almost a decade […]
Alexander Martyn PhD Update
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 the successful recipient of an Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD scholarship. Looking back on it […]
Michael Papadimitrious PhD Update
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 the Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic scholarship which supported Michael during his PhD studies between 2014 […]
Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PHD 2021
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 RNA Biology Program at the Centennary Institute First supported by Arrow in 2019, Natalia is […]