Message from Dean
It gives me great pleasure to issue this message to the inaugural e-newsletter of the Research Promotion and Facilitation Centre (RPFC) of our Faculty. Since the establishment of the RPFC in 2017, the Center has been providing leadership to promote research and facilitate research by contributing to the enhancement of various aspects of the research ecosystems of the faculty. These activities have ranged from providing research training; enhancing research awareness through print and electronic media, workshops, and conference; facilitating pooling of research resources; to supporting patenting and commercialization of research. The e-newsletter will facilitate wider dissemination of the activities of the centre and closer engagement with students, faculty, extended faculty, alumni and the wider community. I wish to congratulate the Director and Activity Coordinators of the Center for their dedication and commitment. I look forward to supporting the center to go from strength to strength.
Vidya Jyothi Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake
Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Chair and Senior Professor, Department of Anatomy, Genetics and Biomedical Informatics
Message from Director RPFC
I am delighted to send this message to the first RPFC E-Newsletter of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. The RPFC newsletter was introduced in 2018, with the aim of promoting and publicizing research outcomes of the staff and students of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Under the able guidance of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Senior Professor Vajira Dissanayake, the RPFC newsletter is published online from September 2021. The objective of going online is to enhance the visibility of our researchers and their findings to a wider readership.
We are highly encouraged by the constant support and guidance rendered by the Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo, Senior Professor Chandrika Wijeratne who kindly accepted our invitation as the first renowned researcher to be interviewed by our student editors.
I congratulate the editor, Dr.Sameera Gunawardena, sub-editor, Dr.Dineshani Hettiarachchi and the editorial committee members for their individual endeavours resulting in an excellent inaugural e-newsletter dedicated to research.
I invite all the researchers in the faculty to utilize this opportunity to popularize your research projects and findings.
The RPFC highly appreciates the commitment of the academics, post-graduate and undergraduate students and the technical officers of the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, for their unwavering dedication towards a positive research culture in the faculty. The RPFC strives to be a source of encouragement and motivation for all the researchers out there committed to uplift science and humanity.
Prof. Dilshani WN Dissanayake
Director, Research Promotion and Facilitation Centre (RPFC)
Head of Department and Professor in Physiology