Researchgate<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Prof. Sirisena, is a Professor in Medical Genetics in the Department of Anatomy,
\nGenetics & Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Her
\nspecial interests are Clinical Genetics, Cancer Genetics and Genomics, Genomic
\nMedicine and Genomic Education. She provides clinical care and genetic counseling for
\npatients with diverse genetic diseases attending the genetics clinic at the Centre for
\nGenetics & Genomics. She is also involved in teaching medical genetics and genomics
\nto both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty and co-ordinating
\nresearch work related to both clinical genetics and cancer genomics.
\nShe spearheads the cancer genetics programme in the Centre and has been involved in
\nintegrating next-generation sequencing based cancer gene panel testing to the
\nrepertoire of services offered through the clinic. She is also the Departmental co-
\nordinator overseeing the international electives programme which provides short-
\nterm training for overseas undergraduate medical students in the areas of anatomy,
\nhistology, embryology and genetics.
\nShe has presented her research work both locally and abroad and has authored
\nnumerous publications arising out of the Centre, which have won several awards
\nincluding the Daphne Attygalle Award for the best paper in Cancer at the Sri Lanka
\nMedical Association 130 th Anniversary International Medical Congress 2017 and the
\nKorean Breast Cancer Foundation Scholarship award for outstanding oral
\npresentation at the Global Breast Cancer Conference, South Korea in 2017 and 2019.
\nShe was also awarded the Prof. N.D.W. Lionel Memorial Oration by the Sri Lanka
\nMedical Association at the 132 nd Anniversary International Medical Congress 2019.
\nHer current research work involves characterizing the molecular genetic determinants
\nof hereditary and sporadic breast cancer in Sri Lankan women.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row el_class=”fom-header-row-home”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”662″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=”zoomIn” width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] MBBS, MSc (Clinical Genetics), PhD Professor in Medical Genetics Department of Anatomy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/nirmala-sirisena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}