Tag: scholarships

How do doctors know what treatment is likely to help which patient? Data. And lots of it. Years, no decade after decade of it. While you probably won’t ever see a TV series with the likes of a dreamy Patrick Dempsey playing the role of key data manager, here at Arrow, we think data managers […]

We are proud to have supported two nurses to attend Blood 2023, a haematology focused conference in Melbourne: Serafina Levak from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney who received the Shaun Rosen Scholarship and Kylie Sih from Royal Hobart Hospital who received funding through the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship. Both nurses had valuable experiences at […]

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. […]

September 15th is Lymphoma Awareness Day. Earlier this year we awarded funding through the Shaun Rosen Scholarship to Stacey Koschel and Suzie Flynn from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney to attend the Lymphoma Australia Health Professional Conference on the Gold Coast. The conference gave Stacey & Suzie opportunities to meet with doctors and other nurses […]

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) to offer up to three bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and/or cellular therapy (CT) fellows or trainees the opportunity to complete a national registry study focussed on disease specific BMT outcomes in the 2024 clinical year. The […]

EBMT Meeting in Paris 2023 It gives us great pleasure to be able to support nurses in the field of bone marrow transplant care through our scholarships program, offered to dedicated nurses working in the field of haematology. Newcastle nurse Louisa Brown, BMT Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle, was granted […]

We are so proud of Susan Hall, recipient of the Arrow Trace Richey Scholarship in 2021, who has recently graduated from the Master in Cancer and Haematology Nursing degree through the University of Sydney. Since completing the course, Susan has been recognised as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant on ward […]

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 […]

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 […]

We have recently received an extremely generous donation from the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (HCC) Association of $25,000 to help support our work here at Arrow. It is an especially generous donation this year because their event, the 111km overnight paddle down the Hawkesbury River, hasn’t been able to run for the last three years: two […]

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 […]

Paris may well be the city of love, but for a few days in April this year it will also be the city of bone marrow transplants as the 49th European Bone Marrow Transplant Conference is held there. And this year, a dedicated nurse from Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle will be there thanks to […]