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, plus many four-legged friends, ran or walked the course, raising $70,000 for valuable myeloma research. This takes the total raised through the Festival to an incredible $390,000 since first taking place in 2017. Geoff Nyssen, personally affected by multiple … Continued
In laboratories around the country and the world, Australian researchers and clinicians are striving to find new blood cancer treatments to make it a curable disease for all. We are proud to support one such researcher, Queensland’s clinician scientist, Dr Siok Tey, who is recognised nationally and internationally for her work in bone marrow transplantation … Continued
Immunotherapy is a bright beacon of hope in the quest for better cancer treatments. CAR-T cell therapy, a form of immunotherapy created through modifying a person’s own T-cells to identify and destroy cancer cells, shows significant promise for patients, clinicians and researchers alike. Yet not all those who receive CAR-T cell treatment respond, and some … Continued
Meet Dr Josh Tobin, Lymphoma Researcher and inaugural Snowdome Foundation Haematology Fellow. Dr Tobin has a special interest in indolent lymphoma, a type of slow growing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Although incurable, many of those diagnosed will not require treatment but for those who do, some will relapse and experience aggressive disease. The goal of Dr Tobin’s … Continued
The Snowdome Foundation and passionate volunteer, Geoff Nyssen were honoured at the 2022 Third Sector Awards, a national award celebrating and recognising the best not-for-profit practices around Australia. Winning the Small Charity of the Year and Volunteer of the Year Awards is a significant recognition of the passion and commitment of all within Snowdome and … Continued