Rajika Dewasurendra

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Rajika Dewasurendra is the MalariaGen Data Fellow for Sri Lanka. She holds a degree in Zoology specializing in the field of molecular biology from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. She joined the Malaria Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, in 2002, and has been involved in malaria research since then, especially on mediators of the clinical disease of Plasmodium vivax malaria. Rajika and the team at the University of Colombo are contributing to Consortial Project 2. More >>

Read Rajika's account of recruiting and processing samples in Kataragama, a rural area of in the southeast of Sri Lanka. More >>