Liverpool Catholic Club: A Champion for the Community
At the heart of Liverpool Catholic Club is community. The club itself boasts a range of amenities all designed to bring people together: to eat, be entertained, skate, get fit, host functions and parties, keep the kids entertained… In short, the club exists to serve the community around it. Part of that local community is […]
The start of an exciting research career for Ritika Saxena!
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 the University of Melbourne. Her journey has been nothing short of extraordinary, and we are […]
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. […]
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 […]
Ritika Saxena PhD Progress Update
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 […]
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia relapse after bone marrow transplant
“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 runner, and not one to mince words. But he’s right: if the underlying disease isn’t […]
Arrow HSANZ PhD Scholarship Awarded – Congratulations Dr Michael Ashby!
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 study methods of preventing relapse of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after a bone marrow transplant. […]
Back to the Hawkesbury!
After a three-year hiatus due to COVID in 2020 and again in 2021, and then the devastating floods of 2022, it was a pleasure to be able to attend the start of the 2023 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. And what a fabulous event it was! Hundreds of paddlers, along with their supporting land crew, gathered at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Applications close: 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). The scholarship, which provides a stipend for three years of full time study, will be awarded to PhD Candidates whose research focuses on improving outcomes of blood and marrow transplantation for […]
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 […]