 Professor Mark Willcox - Chief Scientific Officer
Professor Mark Willcox is a specialist in the field of eye health, particularly the areas of ocular inflammation and microbiology. He is Professor of the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of New South Wales and an Executive Director of the Vision CRC.
He has published over 160 refereed papers. Among other notable achievements, Professor Willcox is a fellow of the British Contact Lens Association and President-elect of the International Society for Contact Lens Research.
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) (Applied Biological Sciences), Bristol Polytechnic, University of the West of England, United Kingdom, 1983
PhD (Medical Microbiology), University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 1987
Professional and academic memberships
Australian Society for Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
British Contact Lens Association
International Society for Eye Research
Council (Board of Directors) of International Society for Contact Lens Research
Governing Board of Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society
Executive Committee of Molecular Pathogenesis on Inflammation and Infectious Eye Research, USA
Scientific Advisory Board, Minomic Pty Ltd, Australia
Awards
1993 Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Dental Research, Westmead Hospital, Australia
1999 Outstanding Achievement, Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales
2006 Distinguished Research on Cornea and Contact Lens, University of Houston College of Optometry, Houston, USA
2008 Elected Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association (FBCLA), May 2008
2009 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision
Patents
- Willcox, Williams, Schneider and Vanderlaan. Biomedical devices with antimicrobial coatings. AU5018599, BR9904394, CN1254729, DE69902330D, DE69902330T, JP2000187187, KR2000034961, SG91832, TW446822, US2002068013, US6592814
- Griesser, Willcox, Zhu, Hughes, Kumar, Muir, Read, Thissen. Antimicrobial coatings. AU4814501, EP1296673, WO0176594,
- Morris, Willcox, Bolis, Walsh, Herbert, Molloy, Gooley, Williams. Diagnosis of disease using tears. WO9835229
- Willcox, Lan, Aliwarga, Vanderlaan. Biomedical devices with antimicrobial cationic peptide and protein coatings. WO02064183; EP1357954
- Cole, Hume, Aliwarga, Willcox, Zanini. Antimicrobial peptides. WO2004056407; US2004126409
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