Professional Qualifications

• MRCP (UK): 2015

Memberships in Professional Organizations

• Member of Royal College of Physicians, London: 2015 to date
• Member of Ceylon College of Physicians
• Member of Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine
• Member of National Science Foundation
• Member of Sri Lanka Medical Association

Awards

• 2007 Professor M.T.M.Jiffry Gold Medal for best performance at Final MBBS
• 2007 Professor Dayasiri Fernando gold medal for best performance in Surgery at Final MBBS
• 2007 Gold Medal for Clinical Paediatrics for best performance in Paediatric at Final MBBS
• 2013 John F Stokes gold medal for best performance in MD (Medicine)
• 2013 P.T. De Silva gold medal for best performance in the clinical component of MD
  (Medicine)
• 2015 Commonwealth scholarship for PhD at University of Oxford

• Infectious diseases

Research Interests

• Infectious diseases
• Host responses in infections (ER stress)
• NAFLD

ORCID ID and Link

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0154-1864

Google Scholar Link

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9YL6b8wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Research Gate Link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nilanka-Perera

Research Grants Held

• CCP research grant by Ceylon College of Physicians worth LKR 500,000 (2022)
• University research grant worth LKR 3 million (2022)

Research Collaborations

Research collaboration with Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford

Awards

• 2014 – Dr E.M.Wijerama award for the best oral presentation at the 47^th Annual Academic sessions, CCP, Sri Lanka.
• 2017 – Presidents’ award for Scientific research
• 2021 – Best oral presentation at the Annual scientific sessions, “SIMCON 2021” organized by Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine, Sri Lanka

Other Faculties of University of Sri Jayewardenepura

• Faculty of Allied Health Sciences