Others

Memberships and Honorary Services in Expert Committees, Editorial and Review Boards

  • Member of the Scientific Review Board, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA. 2016 onwards.
  • Member, Governance Committee, Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria Project (MalariaGEN), University of Oxford, United Kingdom (2010 onwards). https://www.malariagen.net/community/ethics-governance/gc
  • Member of the international jury of the Carlos J. Finlay UNESCO Prize for Microbiology (2017)
  • Member of the Research Board, Inter-academy Partnership, Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences of Asia (2018 onwards).
  • Founder President, Sri Lanka National Chapter for Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (2018-2020)
  • Member, Governing Council, Sri Lanka Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment (2013-2015).
  • Member of the Women in Science and Engineering Committee, Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) from 2015 onwards http://aassa.asia/about/special_committee.php
  • Member of International Advisory Board, International Congress of Parasitology 2018, Daegu, Korea, 19-24 August 2018.
  • General Secretary, National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (2015 onwards)
  • Person-in-Charge, Research Promotion and Facilitation Centre (RPFC), Faculty of Medicine, Colombo (since 2014-2017) and Head of Advisory Committee to RPFC from 2017 onwards.
  • Coordinator, Higher Education for the Twentieth Century (HETC) Project (Window 3; Medicine). World bank funded project (2012-2015).
  • Member, Expert Committee of Women in Science and Engineering in Asia-Pacific (WISE), Association of Academies in South Asia (and Pacific). 2013 onwards.
  • Member, National-level Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health (2012 onwards).
  • Member of Technical Advisory Group, Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, Ministry of Health (2015 onwards).
  • Chairperson, General Research Committee, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science. (2012)
  • Member of National Committee on International Partnerships, National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka (2011-2013).
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of the National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka (2002-2005 and 2012-2015.
  • Member, Committee on Health Sciences/Medicine, National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka (2002 – 2005, 2008 onwards).
  • Member of the Technical Support Group, National Program for Malaria Control in Sri Lanka (2008 onwards).
  • Member of Technical Advisory Panel, National Program for Leishmaniasis Control in Sri Lanka (2008 onwards)
  • Member, Technical Advisory and Consultative Group, Dengue Vector Control in Sri Lanka, Ministry of Health (2009).

Scholarships and Fellowship Awards

  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka (FNASSL) (2011 onwards)
  • Senior Research Scholar, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, U.S.A. (2005/2006)
  • Fulbright Advanced Research and Lecturing Award, U.S.A. (2005)
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, Commission of the European Communities, June, 1994 to May 1995
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship, Research Training Grant, T.D.R., World Health Organization, June 1993 to May, 1994.

Contribution to Text Books/Supplementary reading material

  • Protozoa in the Medical Microbiology, 19th Edition, Mike Barer, Will Irving, Andrew Swann, Nelun Perera Eds. Elsevier, United Kingdom. Chapter 59. In Press.
  • Relationship between fever and plasma levels of tumour necrosis factor in P.vivax malaria, The host’s response to infection by BM Greenwood, in The Concise Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 3rd Edition, Volume 1, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Chapter 7.3, Pp275-285,  (2001)
  • Fever with chills and rigors, in Biology of Diseases, J. Phillips, P. Murray and P.Kirk, eds, 2nd Edition, Blackwell Science Ltd. United Kingdom. Case study 5. Pp. 231-234. (2001).
  • Diagnosis and management of malaria. A handbook for medical officers. By Dr. N.D. Karunaweera and R. Fernandopulle. ISBN  955-8891-00-2. (2003).
  • Leishmaniasis: update and action plan for prevention and control. (2009).
  • Epidemiology of Leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka, ND Karunaweera and HVYD Siriwardana. (2011). In Kala Azar: Emerging perspectives and prospects in South Asia, H P Thakur Ed. Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India. ISBN 81-8324-355-X.
  • Diagnosis and treatment of malaria, 2nd edition, ND Karunaweera and BMR Fernandopulle, (2011). ISBN 978-955-8891-02-5.
  • Management of Leishmaniasis. In The Sri Lanka Prescriber, Vol. 21(2): 2013. ISSN 1391-0736.
  • Update on Clinical, Diagnostic, Chemotherapeutic and Entomological aspects of Leishmaniasis and Updated Action Plan for Prevention and Control in Sri Lanka. (2013). ISBN 978-955-0460-55-7.
  • Ethics in Human and Animal Experiments. In A Guide for Beginners in Research, Edited by MCM Iqbal, General Research Committee, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science Publication. 2014. ISBN 978-955-9321-14-9.
  • Achievements and Best Practices to Promote Women in Science and Technology. In Women in Science and Technology in Asia. The Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia. 2015. Panmun Education Co., Ltd. ISBN 979-11-86795-00-2.

Patents

  • Patent No.12887, National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka, in respect of the invention entitled ‘Use of a thermostable clay device for maintenance of Leishmania cultures’.N.D.Karunaweera, R.L. Ihalamulla and C.P.G. Liyanage.
  •  Patent No. 13303, National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka, in respect of the invention entitled ‘Neural network architecture for the automated recognition of malaria parasites in stained blood films’.S.P.Premaratne, N.D.Karunaweera and W.S.R. Perera.

Summary of Principal Scientific Contributions

  • Providing scientific data that enabled the Ministry of Health to initiate a program to develop control strategies against leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka.
  • Demonstration of cytokine-mediated mechanisms of malaria transmission blocking effects during infection.
  • Demonstration of the relation between cytokine-mediated anti-parasitic effects and pathogenesis in malaria.
  • Demonstration of immunity to mediators of pathogenesis and down-regulation of cytokine production in the state of acquired clinical tolerance to malaria infection.
  • Introduction of methods for studying malarial disease and clinical tolerance to disease combining clinical assessment and history with pathophysiological and parasitological measurements. Detailed characterization of patterns of disease and acquired clinical tolerance in an endemic population.
  • First successful in vitro culture of Leishmania parasites in Sri Lanka.
  • Demonstration of cutaneous leishmaniasis as an established disease in Sri Lanka.
  • Detailed identification of the causative organism (L.donovani, MON-37) of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka.
  • First study on cutaneous myiasis in Sri Lanka.

Workshops, Conferences, Symposia Organized:

  • Ethical responsibilities of reviewers: Workshop on ‘Reviewing research articles: are we doing it right?’. Organized by National Science and Technology Commission and Young Scientists Forum, 25th April 2014, Industrial Technology Institute, Colombo.
  • Update on leishmaniasis: Seminar on Prevention and Control of Vector-borne diseases, Ministry of Health and World Health Organization country office in Sri Lanka. 1st April, 2014. BMICH, Colombo.
  • ‘Leishmaniasis update’ in Symposium on Current Trends in Tropical Medicine, Golden Jubilee and 36th Annual Academic Sessions of the Kandy Society of Medicine. 8th February 2014. Kandy.
  • Second International Colloquium on Leishmaniasis – 25th-26th March 2013, Auditorium, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA), Colombo. Sponsored through the Indo-Sri Lanka Collaborative Program in Science and Technology.
  • Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo. 4th October 2013, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo.  Chair, Organizing Committee.
  • Workshop on ‘Supervisor Skills in Research’ on 8th February 2013, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo.
  • Workshop on ‘Introduction to Post-graduate Research’ on 6th -7th February 2013, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo.

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