Awards and Orations

Awards

  • 2021
    Womens Scientist Award 2021
    Womens Scientist Award 2021’ by the Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology (SSDAT), in collaboration with Kanpur Agricultural University India
  • 2008/2009
    Best Researcher Award University of Wales, UK
  • 2015
    National Research Council “Merit Award”
  • 2018
    Best Presentation Award at the APACPH Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Taipei Medical University Taiwan.
  • 2018
    Best Presentation Award ICTTHM 2018 20th International Conference on current trends of Traditional herbal Medicine, Singapore
  • 2017
    First place in the poster category Annual Research Symposium, faculty of medicine University of Colombo
  • 2017
    Third place in the poster category Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo, 2017 (28th November 2017)
  • 2017
    National Science Foundation Overseas Special Training Programme (OSTP) travel grant
  • 2016
    Best Presentation award (1st Place) , Research Symposium, University of Colombo
  • 2016
    Oral Presentation 2nd Place at the Research Symposium, University of Colombo
  • 2017
    Travel Award- The Life Sciences Bridges-Networking programme , Marburg, Germany 2017 by the International Giessen Graduate Centre for Life Sciences
  • 2012
    Travel Award- Harvard Medical School, USA by the International Giessen Graduate Centre for Life Sciences (GGL)

Orations, Guest Lectures and Plenaries

  • Global Biotech Revolution –Exploring carriers in Biotechnology –Plenary talk, Live panel discussion, 2021
  • Plenary Speech, International Conference on Multidisciplinary approaches for drug design towards diseases management- new horizon of Health Science, March 2020, Bilaspur, India
  • Plenary Speech, International Conference on Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology (GEN 2017) Colombo Sri Lanka, 2017
  • Guest Lecture at the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon (IChem) on Chemical Handling and Laboratory Safety, 2016.

  • Expert speech at annual conference of the International Giessen Graduate centre for Life Sciences (2013)

  • Expert speech at annual conference of the International Giessen Graduate centre for Life Sciences (2012)

  • Expert speech at VAAM (Association for General and Applied Microbiology) annual meeting March- Tübingen , Germany 2012.
  • Expert speech at the RNA Society Meeting Berlin, Germany, 2011

  • Expert speech at the Achaea Annual General Meeting, Schmitten, Germany, 2010

Resource Person for National and International Workshops

  • Resource person and coordinator at the Seminar on Basic Techniques in Molecular Biology, Organized by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, 2016

  • Resource person and coordinated at the Workshop on ‘Fundamental techniques in Molecular Biology’, Organized Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS), 2016

  • Resource person and coordinator for awareness programme on injury prevention for School Children in Sri Lanka jointly conducted by Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) and Sri Lanka Academy of Young Scientists’ (SLAYS), 2020

  • Resource person for Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) webinar on COVID 19 in 2020

  • Resource person for Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) Youtube educational video on PCR testing, 2020

  • Resource person Workshop on Electronic and Chemical waste management, Organized by The Sri Lanka Academy of Young Scientists (SLAYS), Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 2016

  • Resource person for SLAYS Community Outreach Programme 2019-Coastal Ecosystem Conservation Awareness’ December 2019

  • Facilitator of study skills programmes conducted by the Department of Medical Education, 2017- 2018