Snowdome is delighted to welcome Cathy Rhodes to the Snowdome Foundation team as the Senior Office Manager. Cathy has a corporate background working for over 25 years in the media and advertising industry. She held positions such as Sales Manager at Nine Network, and Sales Director at both Network TEN and Val Morgan Cinema Network. … Continued
The 2018 ‘Bloody Good Dinner’ raised almost $740,000 for the Snowdome Foundation and Maddie’s Vision to direct towards essential research into blood cancer and bone marrow failure. One of the important projects that the Boards of both organisations sought to fund was a National Career Development Fellowship for a woman in haematology. Women have well … Continued
By voting for Snowdome in the My Giving Circle we have the chance to share in over $50,000. It only takes 30 seconds. https://mygivingcircle.org/charity/snowdome-foundation/
On October 11th Snowdome held its first educational event to help support the work being conducted to bring blood cancer clinical trials and research to Western Australia (WA). The evening was hosted by Professor Wendy Erber, Executive Dean of Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Western Australia (WA) in the incredible … Continued
Wonderful news for multiple myeloma patients with interim results of a new clinical trial (MAIA) reporting positive outcomes. Multiple myeloma patients who were not candidates for high dose chemotherapy or autologous stem cell transplants were treated with daratumumab (monoclonal antibody) in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone or with just lenalidomide and dexamethasone. Patients in the … Continued
Evidence shows blood cancer patients have a better outcome if they are enrolled in a clinical trial. Sadly, for a multitude of reasons Australia is often not included in blood cancer trials. At Snowdome, we work with leading Australian Haematologists to identify key opportunities to enable trials to commence, which provides Australian blood cancer patients … Continued
The MRDR is an Australian and New Zealand Registry that collects information on patients with multiple myeloma (MM), monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), plasma cell leukaemia and plasmacytoma, in order to improve the care of individuals with these diseases. The registry is a partnership with participating hospitals and is administered through Monash University. … Continued
On May 23rd 2018, the Snowdome Foundation and Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision will once again host the ‘Bloody Good Dinner’. The ‘Bloody Good Dinner’ was established to fund breakthroughs in discovering new treatments for Bone Marrow Failure and Blood Cancers. One hundred percent of the profits will go directly towards this cause. This year we are … Continued
This is a wonderful story of how Snowdome is making a difference to patients’ lives right now. Snowdome in collaboration with the Epworth Medical Centre is funding research into a novel way of diagnosing and assessing blood cancers in order to individualise treatment for patients. Currently diagnosis and assessment of blood cancer progression relies on … Continued