Dr. Laksiri Weerasinghe and Dr. Ranga Jayakody, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, received SUSRED Awards-2023 for supervising the MPhil degree of Ms. Yasuri Amarasekara under the title of Improving the stability of XLAsp-P2 peptide through nano-conjugation. Prof Inoka C Perera from the Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, University of Colombo, and Dr Nuwanthi Katuwavila from NSBM Green University also contributed as co-supervisors for this project.
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