Senior Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
We have a group of talented and motivated researchers including doctoral students, masters students and undergraduates.
Endophytic Fungi lives within a plant for at least part of its life. They are capable of producing medicinaly importnat secondary metabolites.
Sri Lanka being a tropical country provide habitats to a large number of marine algae. Secondary metabolites isolated from marine algae have shown a high level of pharmacological potential.
In bio-assay guided fractionation bio-assays are conducted against clinically important bacteria and fungi in each step of purification of extracts.
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Pamoda Bhasini Ratnaweera (B.Sc.(Zoology) – 2007)
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Ranga Dissanayake (B.Sc. (Pharmacy) – 2011)
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W. Sadin de Silva (B.Sc. (Chemistry, IChem) – 2011)
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Kushan M. Ukwatta (B.Sc.(Chemistry) – 2012)
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Asiri Senevirathna (B.Sc. – 2011)
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Senthi Maaran (B.Sc. (Chemistry, IChem) – 2011)
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| Undergraduate Students |
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Chandika Amarasinghe
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Gihan Dissanayake
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Melani Fernando
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Primali Navaratne
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