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ProfessorPeter McCluskey

Professor (Research Focused), Save Sight Institute

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Orcid identifier0000-0002-8177-1637 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor (Research Focused), Save Sight Institute
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

His laboratory research focuses on mediators of inflammatory eye disease and he has ongoing clinical and laboratory collaborations in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Vietnam and the United States.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Unravelling melanocyte networks in the human choroid and suprachoroid
    Australian Vision Research (AVR)1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCluskey P,
    • Madigan M
  • GRANT
    ALPK1 dysfunction: revealing a novel pathogenic pathway in retinal diseases
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    FMH Centre - Save Sight Institute (SSI)
    DVC Research1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCluskey P
  • GRANT
    Choroidal Melanocytes and Melanocortins: Much More than Melanin
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)2 Feb 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conway RM,
    • Madigan M,
    • Natoli R,
    • McCluskey P,
    • Cioanca V
  • GRANT
    LIONS NSW - ACT Grant for SSI: In conducting research and improving diagnostic and treatment outcomes
    Lions Clubs NSW-ACT Save Sight And Health Care Limited1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCluskey P
  • GRANT
    Eye melanocytes and inflammation
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCluskey P,
    • Madigan M
  • GRANT
    Sydney Vision Initiative
    DVC Research1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    PlaTFORM: PrevenTing Falls in a high risk, vision impaired population through specialist ORientation and Mobility services: a randomised trial
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
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    Characterisation of deficits in driving performance and self-regulation practices among older drivers with bilateral cataract
    Australian Research Council (ARC)20 Jun 2014 - 28 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCluskey P,
    • Foster J,
    • Keay L,
    • Young M,
    • Morlet N
  • GRANT
    Falls risk associated with cataract and after first and second eye cataract surgery
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Keay L,
    • Ng J,
    • McCluskey P,
    • Stapleton F,
    • Morlet N
  • GRANT
    Genome-wide association studies to identify major genetic determinants of 5 blinding eye diseases using pooled DNA
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Craig J,
    • McCluskey P
  • GRANT
    MACSQant Analyser (FL8)
    Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Foundation1 Jan 2011
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Do patients with VKHD develop specific immune responses against uveal melanocyte
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Do patients with VKHD develop specific immune responses against uveal melanoytes
    Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
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    Toll like receptors in ocular inflammation (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wakefield D,
    • Girolamo ND,
    • Mccluskey P
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    Institute Testing - Billson
    BioGen United Kingdom
    People funded by this grant: