Awards , Grants & Projects

• 2014
  Honors- Honorary Consultant in National Ayurveda Teaching Hospital, Borella
• 2014
  Awards – Commonwealth scholarship
• 2014
  Mahima Ayurvedic Excellence Scientist Award – Mahima Research Foundation and Social Welfare, India.
• 2014
  IIM Research Grants

  Compilation of a High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic(HPTLC) drug atlas of selected indigenous medicinal plants - IIM Research Grants(RMC/18/02) -PI.
  
• 2008
  UGC PhD Research Grant (UGC/ICD/045,2008).
• 2016
  The Ministry of Primary Industry Collaborated with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Sri Lanka. Grant no: Grant No: SP/CIN/2016/02 - Co Investigator

  A randomized open label comparative clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of Ayurveda formulations; Trijatha (TJ) and Triphala (TH) in Type 2 Diabetes – co investigator of Specific objective -7 (To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the cinnamon capsule of Cinamomum zeylanicum for treatment of type 2 Diabetes on diet controlled patients at Ayurveda medicine clinical settings) of the potential protective roles of Ceylon Cinnamon in health leading to product development - The Ministry of Primary Industry Collaborated with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Sri Lanka. Grant no: Grant No: SP/CIN/2016/02 - Co Investigator
• 2019
  University of Sri Jayewardenepura research grant - Grant No: ASP/01/RE/MED/2019/41- Co Supervisor

  Standardization and development of a dosage form from Amurthashthaka kwatha (M Phil/PhD research study) University of Sri Jayewardenepura research grant - Grant No: ASP/01/RE/MED/2019/41- Co Supervisor
• 2006
  Institute of Indigenous Medicine and Micro propagation of Plumbago rosea (Rathnitol). - (NSF GRANT No: RG/2006/EQ/01)

  Establishment of tissue culture laboratory in the department of Dravyaguna Vignana (Materia Medica) in the Institute of Indigenous Medicine and Micro propagation of Plumbago rosea (Rathnitol). - (NSF GRANT No: RG/2006/EQ/01)- Completed
• 2018
  Project on establishment of nursery for Research, Cultivation and propagation of Medicinal plants

  Project on establishment of nursery for Research, Cultivation and propagation of Medicinal plants at the Institute of Agro Technology and Rural Sciences, University of Colombo, Weligattha- from 2018