Awards and Orations

Awards

• 2020
  2020 Global Animal Welfare Award by the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and Ceva Santé Animale.
• 2019
  IUBMB Tang Travel Bursary Grantees to attend and present a paper the 2019 IUBMB- PSBMB Education Conference in the Philippines on November 13-15, 2019
• 2018
  IUBMB Women in Science Travel Award to attend the IUBMB and FAOBMB Congress SEOUL 2018.
• 2017
  Erasmus+ mobility project, Staff mobility for Teaching To/From Partner Countries May 2017 Rigas Stradina Universitate, Riga, Latvia.
• 2014
  Commonwealth Academic Fellowship. Southampton General Hospital UK under the supervision of Prof. Phillip Calder, Professor of Nutritional Immunology. 22nd September 2014 to 21st December 2014. Work area- Dietary lipids and lipid mediators on inflammation and resolution of inflammation.
• 2014
  Grant for AuthorAid Summer Research Writing Course held in Texas A & M University, USA June 23rd to July 18th 2014 -from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
• 2013
  Travel award from National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend the 20th International Congress of Nutrition, 2013
• 2011
  Dr. Frank Gunaseksera prize for best research paper in Community Medicine 124th Anniversary Academic Sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2011
• 2010
  Presidential Research Award
• 2007
  Travel awards from National Science Foundation (NSF) and World Health Organization (WHO)
• 2006
  The Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness Scholarship- First World Congress of Public Health Nutrition, Barcelona, Spain
• 2006
  National consultative award- International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA)
• 2000
  Gold Medal for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health
• 1999
  D. Seneviratne Memorial Award for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health