Awards and Grants

Research Grants

Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Development Oriented Research (DOR) Grants

Project title: High-tech transgenic approaches to control dengue by genetic engineering mosquito vector Aedes aegypti

Dates: 2019

Total award: LKR 40 million

financed by the World Bank through Ministry of Higher Education and Highways (MHEH)

University Research Grants 2018

Project title: Functional analyses of SdNP; A protein of unknown function in Setaria digitata

Grant No: AP/3/2/2018/SG/21

Dates: 5th July, 2018

Total award: LKR 500,000

Organization: University of Colombo

Awards

  • 2014
    Best Biological Chemistry Student Award - Wayne State University
  • 2012
    Paul and Carol C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship - Wayne State University
  • 2009
    PLU Chemistry Honorary Society Inductee - Wayne State University
  • 2013
    Summer Dissertation Fellowship - Wayne State University
  • 2011
    Travel award - Wayne State University
  • 2015
    3rd place for the best research Poster - University of Michigan
  • 2013
    Honors Citation for Excellence in Teaching - Wayne State University
  • 2012
    Honors Citation for Excellence in Teaching - Wayne State University
  • 2010
    Honors Citation for Excellence in Teaching - Wayne State University
  • 2007
    The Gulamhusein A.J Noorbhai Gold Medal - University of Colombo
  • 2007
    Prof. Stanley Wijesundera Memorial Gold Medal - University of Colombo