Appointments
- Coordinator, MSc in Cellular and Molecular Immunology
- Convener, Infectious and Parasitic Disease Module of the undergraduate medical curriculum
- A member of the Animal House Committee of the Faculty of Medicine since year 2015
- A Member of the Research Promotion and Facilitation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine
- Member of the Research and Higher Degree Committee of the Faculty of Medicine from 2009 till 2012
- Overall Coordinator of the University Development Grant (UDG) for the University of Colombo under the World Bank Funded Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC) project from April 1, 2011 to date. Acting Director/Operational Technical Secretariat of the University of Colombo for 2 weeks in 2014.
- Deputy Coordinator of the HETC-QIG window 3 project for the promotion of postgraduate research of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
- Senior Research Officer of the Malaria Research Unit, Dept of Parsitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo since April 2008.
- Research Officer of the Malaria Research Unit, Dept of Parsitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo since April 2002 till March 2008
- Coordinator of the World Bank funded IRQUE-QEF (improving relevance and quality of undergraduate education – Quality Enhancement Fund) project for the MBBS Study Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo from November 2006 till June 2008.
- Deputy Coordinator – IRQUE-QEF project from January 2006 till November 2006 and from June 2008 till 2010 and handled all the procurements.
- Coordinator of the Malaria Research Unit (MRU), Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo from June 16, 2004 till end of February 2005.
Memberships
- A Life Member of the Section A, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (A 5431). a Member of the Environment Committee for 3 years from 2001 to 2003
- A Life Member of the Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka
- A Founder and a Life Member of the Allergy and Immunology Society of Sri Lanka (L-009). Council Member and Assistant Secretary in years 2008, 2009 and 2010. A Council Member and Treasurer from year 2011 to date. Through this has become a Member of Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA), Member of World Allergy Organization (WAO) and a Member of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)
- Sri Lanka representative for the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) for year 2011- 2012
Projects
- Co-Investigator of the 2 year research project titled “Assessment of functional antibody levels/status of measles, mumps and rubella using focus reduction neutralization test (FRNT) and genotyping of the circulating virus of all three diseases in Sri Lanka” from 2016 – 2017 from the MRI, ministry of Health. Grant amount Rs 3.5 million.
- Principal Investigator of the collaborative research project “For generating a genetic cross between two strains of Plasmodium cynomolgi” with Prof Richard Culleton, University of Nagasaki and Prof Arnab Pain of King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Period is from March to September 2014. The grant amount is USD 3,240.00. For the same project received USD 3,137.50 from Hokkaido University of Japan through the collaboration of Prof Chihiro Sugimoto and Dr Axel Martinelli for the period of August to December 2016.
- Principal Investigator of the postgraduate training research project “Longitudinal malaria, health and human development survey in the Kataragama region of Sri Lanka” From the World Bank HETC-QIG-W3 project. Project period from 2012-2015. Grant amount is SLR 1,500,000.00 and will be carried out in Hambantota and Moneragala districts.
- Principal Investigator of the research project “Study on measles, mumps and rubella antibody status in mothers and their new born babies in Colombo District” granted by the Medical Research Institute. Project period from 2012-2014. Grant amount is Rs 900,000.00 and is being conducted in Colombo District.
- Principal Investigator of the three -year research project titled “Studies on identification of genes coding strain-specific protective immunity to Plasmodium infection.”, awarded by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka. Project period from 2006-2008. Gant amount was Rs 1,900,000.00 and was conducted in Kataragama and Colombo.
- Principal Investigator of the two-year re-entry project granted by World Health Organization/TDR, in year 2001, under the title “Studies on “strain”-specific protective immunity to Plasmodium cynomolgi infection” ID A00577. Project period from 2002-2004. Grant amont was USD 40,000.00 and was conducted in Colombo, Anuradhapura and Kataragama areas.
- Principal Investigator of the two-year research project titled “Studies on association between the sporozoite inoculum and relapse rate using P. cynomolgi/Toque monkey system”, awarded by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. Project period from 2005-2007. Grant was Rs 1,300,000.00 and was conducted in Colombo and Kataragama areas.
- Research Training scholarship (for one year) from the WHO/TDR in 1998 for the Molecular Biology training at University of Edinburgh, UK. Grant was GBP 8,400.00 and training was obtained in Edinburgh UK.
- IRQUE research grant in 2007 titled “studies on effect of host immunity on relapse rate and infectivity to mosquitoes in malaria using Plasmodium cynomolgi/Toque monkey system. Granted by World Bank funded IRQUE project. Project period from 2007-2009. Grant was Rs 150,000.00 and was conducted in Colombo.
- IRQUE research grant in 2009 titled “Determination of clonality of parasites from Plasmodium cynomolgi relapse infections”. Granted by World Bank funded IRQUE project. Project period from 2009-2010. Grant was Rs 150,000.00 and was conducted in Colombo.
- Co-investigator of the one-year research project, titled “Development of a real time quantitative PCR methods for analysis of vaccine protection using the Plasmodium cynomolgi model”, ID A20219, awarded by the WHO in 1993. Grant was USD 20,000.00 and was conducted in Kataragama and Colombo and was analysed in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
