Awards and Grants

Honours and Awards

  • 2009
    Outstanding poster presentation award - International Conference on Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences, 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • 2011
    Travel award (2800 USD) - To attend the 17th North American ISSX meeting October 16-20, 2011. Atlanta, Georgia USA.
  • 2012
    Presidential award for scientific publications in international peer reviewed journal
  • 2013
    Travel award (Rs 200,000.00)- Training scholarship from NSF Sri Lanka to attend Training course in Frontiers in Stem Cells in Cancer, February 3-8, 2013 at Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • 2013
    Training course award (2650 USD)- Training course in Frontiers in Stem Cells in Cancer, February 3-8, 2013 at Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • 2014
    Hiran Tillelerathne Special Awards for Outstanding Post Graduate Research 2014: In the field of Medicine By University Grants Commission- Sri Lanka
  • 2014
    Scholarship award (3000 USD) from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) for the training course in Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine held in Woods Hole, USA. From 28th September to 4th October 2014
  • 2014
    GRC award 2014 for beast postgraduate (PhD) research in Sri Lanka organized by Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science.
  • 2014
    Visiting scholarship award (7000 USD) from University of Pittsburgh to be started from 6th October 2014- 6th December 2014.
  • 2014
    Best oral presentation award- 2nd International conference in Molecular life Sciences-Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 2015
    Presidential award for scientific publications in international peer reviewed journal
  • 2015
    NRC Merit awards for scientific publication in 2013.
  • 2016
    Presidential award for scientific publications in international peer reviewed journal
  • 2016
    Special awards in the world Science Day-2016 school program organized by the National Science Foundation
  • 2016
    Presidential award for scientific publications in international peer reviewed journal
  • 2016
    Senate awards for research excellence University of Colombo
  • 2017
    Vice Chancellors research excellence award 2017, University of Colombo.
  • 2017
    Senate awards for research excellence University of Colombo
  • 2018
    CVCD award for outstanding young researcher in Biological Science
  • 2018
    Senate awards for research excellence University of Colombo
  • 2019
    Senate awards for research excellence University of Colombo
  • 2019
    NSF Media awards (commendation)

Grants

  1. Principle investigator- for the research grant from National Research Council Sri Lanka. Rs. 3,850,000 “Cancer stem cells targeted drug leads  from  Sri Lankan endemic plants for  breast cancer”-2014-2017.
  2. Investigator: Development of anti cancer compound libraries-from NSF Sri Lanka-8 Million for first six months from a 85 Million five year project-2017-2021
  3. Principle Investigator: International research grant form International Foundation for Science (IFS) –USD 12 000 to carry out the project entitled “Preliminary screening of selected mangrove plants in Sri Lanka for anti cancer activity and isolation of active anti carcinogenic compounds from a selected plant. 2013-2015 (completed).
  4. Investigator (with five other principle investigators) for the research grant from Ministry of Higher Education Sri Lanka- Rs. 18.9 Million. “Drug leads from medicinal plants in Sri Lanka”: 2012-2015 (completed).
  5. Investigator for the research grant from ministry of indigenous medicine Sri Lanka- Rs. 370, 000. “Modifications of bleomycin induced cytogenetic changes by Sri Lankan herbal decoction of Nigella sativa Seeds, Hemidesmus indicus Roots and Smilax glabra rhizome on peripheral blood lymphocyte and its direct cytotoxicity on human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2 cells)”- 2011- (completed).
  6. Co-investigator: Determining the role of dengue NS1 in the pathogenesis of dengue infections- from National Research Council Sri Lanka. 5 Million-2015-2018.
  7. Co-investigator- National Science foundation – Grant number RG/2017/BS/01 Design and Synthesis of novel pullulan and chitosan based nano-polyplexes for gene therapy Grant money 1.52 M.
  8. Co-investigator-National Research Council- Grant No: 17-074- Molecular phylogeny of marine macro algae (sea weeds) present in Sri Lankan coasts and isolation of anti-cancer compounds to target oral cancers from marine macro algae. 4.9 M