Awards and Orations

Awards

• 14th Dec. 2020
  First runner-up poster presentation

  1. First runner-up poster presentation award for the paper “Design and Implementation of a novel pharmacogenetic assay for the identification on CYP2D6*10 genetic variant in a cohort of oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients” by Ranadeva ND, Sirisena ND, Wetthasinghe TK, Noordeen N, Dissanayake VH at the Annual Research Symposium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo held on 14th Dec. 2020.
• 21st Jan. 2021
  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation - 2019

  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena in recognition of Excellence in Research Under Open Category for the year 2019 at the Concluding Ceremony of the University Annual Research Symposium held in Colombo on 21st Jan. 2021.
• 21st Jan. 2021
  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation - 2018

  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena in recognition of Excellence in Research Under Open Category for the year 2018 at the Concluding Ceremony of the University Annual Research Symposium held in Colombo on 21st Jan. 2021.
• 22nd Nov. 2019
  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation - 2017

  Senate Award for Research Excellence Certificate of Commendation awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena in recognition of Excellence in Research Under Open Category for the year 2017 at the Inauguration Ceremony of the University Annual Research Symposium held in Colombo on 22nd Nov. 2019.
• Nov 2019
  Best oral presentation

  Best oral presentation awarded for the paper titled ``High frequency of Klinefelter syndrome in a cohort of Sri Lankan males with azoospermia and oligozoospermia`` by Nirmala D. Sirisena, Jayami Samaranayake, Ajith P. Malalasekera, Vajira H.W. Dissanayake at the 14th Annual Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Association of Urological Sessions 2019, Colombo held on 29th - 30th Nov., 2019.
• Nov 2019
  Dr. Sarath Abeykoon memorial prize for best poster presentation

  Dr. Sarath Abeykoon memorial prize for best poster presentation for the paper titled “Genetic variants contributing to colorectal cancer in a Sri Lankan cohort” by Sajeewani Pathirana, Nilaksha Neththikumara, Nirmala D. Sirisena, T. Kalum Wetthasinghe, Vajira H.W. Dissanayake at the Sri Lanka College of Oncologists Annual Academic Sessions 2019, Colombo held on 15th - 17th Nov., 2019.
• July 2019
  Professor N.D.W. Lionel Memorial Oration 2019 of the Sri Lanka Medical Association

  Professor N.D.W. Lionel Memorial Oration 2019 of the Sri Lanka Medical Association awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena for the PhD research titled “Molecular genetic determinants of sporadic breast cancer in Sri Lankan postmenopausal women”. Oration was delivered on 26th July 2019 at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• April 2019
  Korean Breast Cancer Foundation Scholarship

  Korean Breast Cancer Foundation Scholarship award for outstanding oral presentation at the Global Breast Cancer Conference 2019 held at Songdo ConvensiA, Incheon, South Korea from 25th - 27th April 2019 for the paper titled “Pattern of Germline Genetic Variants Identified using Next-Generation Sequencing-based Testing in a Sri Lankan Cohort with Hereditary Breast Cancer” by Nirmala D. Sirisena, Nilaksha Neththikumara, Sajeewani Pathirana, Kalum Wetthasinghe and Vajira H. W. Dissanayake.
• May 2018
  Training Scholarship Award by the Overseas Special Training Programme (OSTP) of the National Science Foundation

  Training Scholarship Award by the Overseas Special Training Programme (OSTP) of the National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena to attend the Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology Short-term Training Fellowship conducted by the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Verona, Italy from 2nd April to 11th May 2018.
• 2017
  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in Cancer

  Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in Cancer at the Sri Lanka Medical Association 130th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2017 for the paper titled “Implementation of Multi-gene Panel Testing for Hereditary Cancer Predisposition in Sri Lanka: Initial Experiences” by Sirisena UND, Neththikumara N, Wetthasinghe K, Herath L, Dissanayake VHW.
• April 2017
  Korean Breast Cancer Foundation Scholarship award for outstanding oral presentation

  Korean Breast Cancer Foundation Scholarship award for outstanding oral presentation at the Global Breast Cancer Conference 2017 at Jeju Island, South Korea from 20th - 22nd April 2017 for the paper titled “Genetic determinants of sporadic breast cancer in a cohort of Sri Lankan postmenopausal women” by Nirmala D. Sirisena, Anchala Kuruppu, Adebowale Adeyemo, Nilaksha Neththikumara, Nilakshi Samaranayake, Vajira H. W. Dissanayake.
• Aug 2017
  The certificate for the best poster presentation

  The certificate for the best poster presentation awarded at the 16th Annual Scientific Congress of the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka, held on 24th August 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka for the paper titled “Cytogenetic and phenotypic spectrum in a cohort of infants with congenital abnormalities” by Paththinige CS, Kariyawasam UGIU, Perera ADS, Amalka BAT, Saumya WAKS, Sirisena UND, Dissanayake VHW.
• April 2017
  International Travel Grant Award

  International Travel Grant Award by the University of Colombo awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena to participate at the Global Breast Cancer Conference 2017 in Jeju Island, South Korea from 20th - 22nd April 2017 for oral presentation of a paper titled “Genetic determinants of sporadic breast cancer in a cohort of Sri Lankan postmenopausal women”.
• Sep 2016
  Selective participant

  Selective participant at the International Summit in Human Genetics and Genomics, hosted by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA from September 1st - 30th, 2016.
• 2016
  Merit award

  Merit award for Scientific Publications awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena in the year 2016 and 2017. This award scheme is administered by the National Research Council, Sri Lanka.
• March 2015
  International Travel Grant

  International Travel Grant Award by the National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena to deliver an oral presentation of a paper titled - “Initial Experience in Implementation of a Cancer Gene Panel Test to Determine the Aetiology of Breast Cancer in a Developing Country” at the Human Genome Meeting 2015 Conference held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia from 14 – 17 March 2015.
• Aug 2014
  The certificate for the best poster presentation

  The certificate for the best poster presentation of a case report awarded by the Assembly of Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology and The College of Pathologists of Sri Lanka at the Diagnostic Pathology Update and Junior Academy International Conference 2014 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 27 to 29 August 2014 for the paper titled “BRCA1 mutation is three Sri Lanka families with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome” by Gautam B, Sirisena UND, Dissanayake NDW, Dissanayake VHW.
• Aug 2014
  Senate Award

  Senate Award for Research Excellence Commendation awarded to Dr. Nirmala D. Sirisena in recognition of Excellence in Research Under Open Category for the year 2020 at the Inauguration Ceremony of the University Annual Research Symposium held in Colombo on 16th Nov. 2022.
• Aug 2014
  SLMA

  SLMA prize for the best poster at the Sri Lanka Medical Association 135th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2022 held on 28th-30th September 2022, Colombo, Sri Lanka for the paper titled “Frequency of germline variants of uncertain significance and clinico-pathological features in Sri Lankan patients with hereditary breast cancer” by Gunawardena KW, Sirisena ND, Anandagoda G, Neththikumara N, Dissanayake VHW.
  
• Aug 2014
  SLMA

  H.K.T. Fernando Prize at the Sri Lanka Medical Association 135th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2022 held on 28th-30th September 2022, Colombo, Sri Lanka for the paper titled “Association of long-term meditation with telomere dynamics, selected psychological variables and quality of life in healthy adults: A case control study” by Dasanavaka HMNN, Sirisena ND, Samaranayake N.