{"id":87,"date":"2016-12-09T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/clinmed\/senaka.rajapakse\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:04:35","slug":"research-and-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/research-and-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Research &amp; Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-header-row&#8221;][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221;]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-center\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Research &amp; Grants<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-padding-10&#8243;][vc_column]<h3 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Neuroimmunology <\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Neuroinfections <\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h3 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Research Grants<\/h3>\n[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner]<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Global Parkinson Genetic Program (GP2) study grant (2024 - 2027): Principal Investigator of GP2 study Sri Lanka<\/li><li class=\"\">ASN Research Grant (ASN\/2023\/04\/02\/01): Supervisor of study on the role of cytokine mediated inflammation in febrile seizures (BSc).<\/li><li class=\"\">AHEAD Grant No. 81 (2020): Supervisor of PhD study on effect of meditation on central and peripheral neurophysiological parameters in health and on selected clinical outcomes of Parkinson disease and epilepsy.<\/li><li class=\"\">ASN Research Grant (2018): Study on autoimmune encephalitis and neuromyelitis optica among Sri Lankan patients.<\/li><li class=\"\">University of Colombo \u2013 funding for inter-faculty research (2017): Supervisor of Immunologic markers in the progression of Parkinson disease (BSc).<\/li><li class=\"\">UGC\/DRIC\/PG\/2014MAY\/CMB (2015): Supervisor of PhD study on developing a knee osteoarthritis flare risk calculator tool and its validation in a Sri Lankan Cohort.<\/li><li class=\"\">HETC\/QIG\/ W3, Grant No 2.2.3 (2013) and University Research Grant No.AP\/3\/2\/2015\/PG\/06 (2015): Supervisor of PhD study on prevalence and associated factors of snake bite and subsequent disabilities among rural residents in the district of Ampara.<\/li><li class=\"\">NRC Grant 11-075 (2011): Study on viral aetiologies of acute encephalitis in a hospital-based population in Sri Lanka (MPhil).<\/li><li class=\"\">SLMA Research Grant (2009): Study on knowledge of stroke, its warning symptoms, risk factors and treatment among the general public and general practitioners in Sri Lanka.<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-header-row&#8221;][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-padding-10&#8243;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"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\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/thashi-chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}