Awards and Orations

Awards

• 2013
  Eva Dresel Travel Award

  WIMM, University of Oxford.
• 2013
  Competitive Travel Grant

  Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
• 2011
  Green Templeton Academic Award
• 2011
  Eva Dresel Travel Award

  University of Oxford. United Kigdom
• 2010
  Poster Scholarship

  Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference, Sydney, Australia.
• 2008-2012
  Commonwealth Scholarship Award

  DPhil studies at University of Oxford awarded by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission , United Kingdom
• 2007
  Fellowship training

  Molecular diagnosis of Drug resistant tuberculosis, awarded by International Atomic Agency.
• 2014
  Best free paper (poster)

  Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
  Presidential Awards for Research

  by His Excellency the president of Sri Lanka
• 2005, 2006, 2008
  Presidential Awards for Research

  for publication which have appeared in international refereed journals cited in the Science Citation Index .
• 2011
  Best poster award

  SLMA Scientific session for the poster ‘Sublineages of Beijing Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Sri Lanka.
• 2008
  Sir Frank Gunasekera prize for the best paper

  in Community Medicine and Tuberculosis for the talk titled ‘Predominant tuberculosis spoligotypes, Sri Lanka at SLMA Scientific Sessions.