Honours and Awards

  • 2020
    Senate Award for Excellence in Research for the year 2019 (open category)
  • 2019
    Senate Award for Excellence in Research for the year 2017 (Early Career Award - Commendation)
  • 2017
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory Corporate Partnership Registration Fee Waiver to participate for EMBL course: Liquid Biopsies, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2015
    National Science Foundation Travel Grant to participate for the AACR: New Horizons in Cancer Research Conference; Shanghai, China
  • 2015
    SEDA award for Teaching, Learning and Assessing in higher education from the Staff and Educational Development Association, UK
  • 2015
    CTHE (Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education) from the Staff Development Centre, University of Colombo
  • 2014
    Oral presenter-3rd place at 2nd International Conference on Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences organized by Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
  • 2010
    Avon Foundation AACR International Scholar-in-Training Grant award supported by The Avon Foundation, USA 2010 to participate for 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, Texas
  • 2010
    One of the three Best Posters -Award in the 14th world congress of Gynecological Endocrinology, Florence, Italy
  • 2010
    Winner of “Under 34 competition” in the 14th world congress of Gynecological Endocrinology, Florence, Italy

Grants

  • 2015
    University Grants Commission Start-Up Research Support Programme, Sri Lanka (UGC/VC/DRIC/SRSP/2014/CMB-01)
  • 2015
    Competitive Research Grant, National Research Council, Sri Lanka (NRC 15-033)
  • 2014
    National Science Foundation Research Grant 2014, Sri Lanka (RG/2014/BT/04)