His areas of research interest are the rational design of drugs, drug delivery systems, sensors, diagnostic materials and catalysts. His research makes a positive contribution to health in terms of developing cures for cancer and infections as well as other diseases involving the aged.

Bedernjak, Alexandre, Groundwater, Paul, Gray, Mark, Orenga, S, Perry, J D and Anderson, Rosaleen (2013) Synthesis and evaluation of halogenated nitrophenoxazinones as nitroreductase substrates for the detection of pathogenic bacteria. Tetrahedron, 69 (39). pp. 8456-8462. ISSN 0040-4020 Kottakota, Suresh, Benton, Matthew, Evangelopoulos, D, Guzman, J. D., Bhakta, S., McHugh, T. D., Groundwater, P. W., Gray, Mark, Marrs, E. C. L., Perry, J. D. and Harburn, J. J. (2012) Versatile Routes to Marine Sponge Metabolites through Benzylidene Rhodanines. Organic Letters, 14 (24). pp. 6310-6313. ISSN 1523-7060 Tindle, John, Gray, Mark, Warrender, Robert, Ginty, Kevin and Dawson, Peter (2012) Application Framework for Computational Chemistry (AFCC) applied to New Drug Discovery. International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing, 4 (2). pp. 46-62. ISSN 1938-0259 Kottakota, S K, Evangelopoulos, D, Alnimr, A, Bhatkta, S, McHugh, T, Gray, Mark, Groundwater, Paul, Marrs, E C L, Perry, J D, Spilling, C D and Harburn, J J (2012) Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Purpurealidin E-Derived Marine Sponge Metabolites: Aplysamine-2, Aplyzanzine A, and Suberedamines A and B. Journal of Natural Products, 75 (6). pp. 1090-1101. ISSN 0163-3864 Varadi, Linda, Gray, Mark, Groundwater, Paul, Hall, Andrew, James, Arthur L, Orenga, Sylvain, Perry, John D and Anderson, Rosaleen (2012) Synthesis and evaluation of fluorogenic 2-amino-1,8-naphthyridine derivatives for the detection of bacteria. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 10 (13). pp. 2578-2589. ISSN 1477-0520