Research Interests
- Abnormal Urinary metabolites in Autism Children
- Iron absorption in Different Rice Varieties
- Metabolism of Tea Polyphenols
- Pharmcokinetic analysis of drugs
- Cytotoxicity and Apoptosis Studies with Tea, Herbal Teas and Aurvedic Drug Preparations and plants
- Antioxidant activity of plants and biological fluids
- Drug interactions with Food/Herbs using liver slices
- Paracetamol levels in blood under different setups
Research Grants
- Induction of Apoptosis by tea and metabolism of tea polyphenolsNational Research Council, Sri Lanka (2000),
- Induction of Apoptosis in cell lines by selected traditional medicine. National Science Foundation Sri Lanka, (2006).
- The effect of tea infusion (Camellia Sinensis) on metabolism of acetaminophen in humans IRQUE project Sri Lanka (2006).
- Induction of Apoptosis in cell lines by a traditional drug `Le pana Guliya ’University of Colombo (2012).
- Studies on Hepatoprotective activity of a selected herb using a liver cell line. University of Colombo (2014).
- Study of Immunological characteristic of Leishmaniosis in Sri Lanka University of Colombo (Co investigator) University of Colombo 2014.
- Proliferative and toxicological effects of selected herbs on in-house established mesenchymal stem cells (Co investigator) NSF 2015.
- Anti- dengue viral activity in a selected number of plants used in Sri Lankan traditional medicine, University of Sri Jayawardenapura (2017).
