A state of the art, purpose-built laboratory complex in Victoria will provide new hope to Australian blood cancer patients.
Snowdome is incredibly proud to continue our international collaboration with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in the USA and the Leukaemia Foundation to fund Australian blood cancer researchers and clinicians.
Reproduced from The Australian 7 June 2023 Natasha Robinson – Health Editor A new treatment, dubbed “the future of cancer therapy”, has been approved to treat a type of blood cancer in a step doctors are hailing as the beginning of a “total paradigm shift” in cancer care for the sickest patients who have failed … Continued
1949 – 2022. On 7 September 2022, Snowdome lost a much loved and admired member of our family, Dr John Tandy. John is the father of co-founder Rob Tandy, and his diagnosis of multiple myeloma in 2009 was the catalyst and part of the first chapter in the Snowdome story. Our vision is bound together … Continued
The 2023 My Mount Eliza Run & Fun Festival was a resounding success. Over 600 participants raised $70,000 for valuable myeloma research.
Communities are built on shared experiences, usually bound together by local champions. Geoff Nyssen, a Snowdome volunteer, is one such champion (pictured above, left). Wanting to nurture his own community to be happy, generous and resilient, he began the MY Mount Eliza Run & Fun Festival in 2017 that sees 1,000 people join in each … Continued
After a more than two-year interlude and three reschedules, the Bloody Good Dinner finally returned in November 2022. Guests were welcomed to the spectacular Botanica Marquee in the Royal Botanic Gardens, where they feasted on a glorious banquet inspired by the Mediterranean roots of the talented NOMAD Executive Chef, Jacqui Challinor. The team at Blakes … Continued
When the human genome was mapped (1990 – 2003) it accelerated the study of human biology and improved medical practice, including the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of blood cancer. Today at the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics, researchers identify the genetic mutations causing a patient’s cancer, whether it will act aggressively and which treatments … Continued
Snowdome Foundation and Blood Cancer Research Western Australia (BCRWA) are pleased to announce a new chapter in the delivery of next-generation treatments for Western Australian blood cancer patients. From 1 January 2023, BCRWA will be forging ahead, operating as its own not-for-profit organisation led by Professor Chan Cheah and an independent Board of Directors. Back … Continued