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ProfessorMark Gillies

Senior Principal Research Fellow

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Senior Principal Research Fellow
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Diseases of the central retina, macula

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    FAME-1 Eye Trial Completion
    Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)1 Jul 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M,
    • Jenkins A,
    • Donaghue K,
    • Keech AT,
    • O'Connell R
  • GRANT
    Data Collection and Analysis of Geographic Atrophy in Non-Neovascular AMD through Save Sight Registries, Fight Retinal Blindness (FRB)
    Apellis Australia Pty Ltd1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Rewarding Research 2024
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Targeting the glucose-alanine cycle to treat retinal diseases
    Australian Vision Research (AVR)1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Zhu L,
    • Zhang BT,
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Development of FRB Capability to track GA treatment outcomes
    Apellis Australia Pty Ltd1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Activating endogenous phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) to treat age-related macular degeneration with the help of a Muller cell-specific lipid nanocarrier
    Macular Disease Foundation Australia1 Aug 2021
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Optogenetic restoration of vision in macular degeneration with high-sensitivity Type I and Type II opsins
    Macular Disease Foundation Australia1 Aug 2021
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Fighting Retinal Blindness: learn from the past, improve the present and explore the future of treatments for Macular diseases
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Targeting the pentose phosphate pathway in Mller cells to treat photoreceptor degeneration
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M,
    • Zhang T
  • GRANT
    Extension for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 - Treatment breakthrough of Idiopathic juxtafoveal telangietasia- Mac Tel Project: Research agreement with the Lowy Medical Research Institute Ltd.
    Lowy Medical Research Institute Limited1 Jan 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Target the Notch signalling pathway to prevent retinal fibrosis
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shen W,
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Targeting a novel pathogenic glia-neuronal pathway in retinal diseases
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M,
    • Zhou F,
    • Fan X,
    • Zhang T,
    • Fernando N
  • GRANT
    Novel approaches to advance the research on human macular degeneration
    Office of Global Engagement1 Jul 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Zhou F,
    • Fan X,
    • Cheng Z,
    • Zhang T,
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Minimally invasive glaucoma devices: assessing safety and efficacy with existing real-world registry data
    HCF Research Foundation1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Nano Vision
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Real-time image-guided Optical Coherence Tomography 2 (OCT2)
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Consequences of genetically disrupting serine/glycine metabolism in the retina
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M,
    • Shen W
  • GRANT
    Targeting the de novo serine synthesis pathway in macular disease
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Zhu L,
    • Shen W,
    • Du J,
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    A MULTICENTER, OPEN-LABEL EXTENSION STUDY TO EVALUATE THE LONG-TERM SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF LAMPALIZUMAB IN PATIENTS WITH GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY SECONDARY TO AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION WHO HAVE COMPLETED A
    Roche Products Pty Ltd3 Mar 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Post-hoc analysis of 24 month data from the BEVORDEX Study, prospective, multicentre, randomized, singlemasked clinical trial
    Allergan Australia Pty Ltd1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lim LL,
    • Gillies M,
    • Mehta H
  • GRANT
    Fight Retinal Blindness
    Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation1 Sep 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    BEVORDEX/average interval/visual acuity improvement analysisOwner: Save Sight
    Alimera Sciences Inc.1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    Clinical Trials and registries to prevent blindness for Macular Disease
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    How to get the best outcomes of treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration with vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors: Real World Evidence
    Macular Disease Foundation Australia1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M
  • GRANT
    NEAR INFRARED LIGHT PHOTOBIOMODULATION TREATMENT FOR DIABETIC MACULAR OEDEMA- Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation - Mark CI
    Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gillies M