Awards and Orations

Awards

• 1985
  Commonwealth Medical Fellowship award

  Commonwealth Medical Fellowship award for one year in the UK
• 1991
  Association of Commonwealth Universities Development Fellowship award

  Association of Commonwealth Universities Development Fellowship award for 6 months in the UK
• 1995
  Daphne Atygalle SLMA Award

  Daphne Atygalle SLMA Award for the paper on ``Fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis`` at the annual academic sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.
• 1998
  H K T Fernando SLMA Award

  H K T Fernando SLMA Award for the paper on ``Transplacental antibody transfer- factors that affect neonatal immunity`` at the annual academic sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.
• 1998
  Professor Rajasuriya SLMA Award

  Professor Rajasuriya SLMA Award (Tropical Medicine) for the best
  poster on ``Incidence of open pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Colombo
  prisons and the risk factors for development of TB among prisoners at the annual academic sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association.
• 1999
  University of Colombo award

  University of Colombo award for ``Excellence in Research``
• 1999
  The President Research awards

  Recipient of ``The President Research awards.
• 2001
  S E Seneviratne SLMA Award

  S E Seneviratne SLMA Award for the paper on ``Seroconversion after hepatitis B vaccination and the effect of a booster dose in non and hyporesponders`` at the annual academic sessions of the Sri Lanka Medical Association
• 2001
  Presidential research awards

  Recipient of the “Presidential research awards”
• 2005
  Glaxo Welcome Research Award

  Glaxo Welcome Research Award of the SLMA for the best research
• 2006
  Certificate of Appreciation for 25 years

  Certificate of Appreciation for 25 years of dedicated service to the University of Colombo
• 2012
  Monetary Award

  Monetary Award (Rs 100,000/-) for the best research proposal by vaccine forum of Sri Lanka(Co investigator)
• 2013
  CNAPT Award

  CNAPT award at the 126th SLMA Anniversary Scientific Medical Congress 2013.Adikaram CP, Perera J, Wijesundera SS (2012) The manual mycobacteria growth indicator tube and the nitrate reductase assay for the rapid detection of rifampicin resistance of M.tuberculosis in low resource settings. BMC Infectious Diseases; 12 : 326
• 2014
  President’s award

  President’s award for Scientific publication 2008 held on January 17, 2014 for Trans Roy Soc Trop Med Hyg 2008, Vol 102; Iss 10; pp 997-1002 and Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2008; Vol 12; Iss 3; pp 275-280.
• 2015
  President’s award

  President’s award for Scientific publication 2013 held on November 18, for Risk factors and pathogenic significance of bacteremic pneumonia in adult patients with community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia.Journal of Infection; 66, 34-40
• 2015
  President’s award

  President’s award for Scientific publication 2013 held on November 18, for Association of levofloxacin resistance with mortality in adult patients with invasive pneumococcal diseases: a post hoc analysis of a prospective cohort, The Asian Network for Surveillance of Resistant Pathogens (ANSORP) Study Group; Infection; 41:151–157
• 2015
  President’s award

  Best poster award for Tetrazolium-based colorimeteric assay for antibiotic susceptibility testing of rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Proceedings of the Annual Research symposium, University of Colombo, October 2015. Pg 99
• 2016
  NSF Research award

  NSF Research awards for research on Determination of drug resistant gene mutations among Rifampicin resistant strains of M tuberculosis (RG/2007/BT/03)