Awards

• NRC Merit Award for Scientific Publication – 2015 (Microbiology SGM 2015, Vol 161, pp 819-828).
• Certificate of Merit, Most Outstanding Young Researcher at Wayamba University Research Congress (WURC) 2018.
• National Science Foundation International Travel Grant Award, November 2016 (Competitive).
• PhD Research Fellowship of the National Research Council of Sri Lanka on a directive of the H.E. the President and Funded by the General Treasury with effect from 1st September 2011 to 31st August 2014.

Research Grants

• PI: Investigator Driven Grant from National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC 17-074). Molecular phylogeny of marine macro algae (sea weeds) present in Sri Lankan coasts and isolation of anti-cancer compounds to target oral cancers from marine macro algae.
• Co-I: RPHS/2016/C 07 Grant of National Science Foundation on Development of Anti-cancer Compound Libraries.