Professor de Silva’s areas of research interests include; healthy brain aging, genetics and fluid biomarker (metabolomics and proteomic) development of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative diseases and stroke leading to personalized medicine. He has established one of the largest bio-banks in South Asia: A “Brain Bank” with most comprehensive neuropathology and molecular genetics performed and a Bio-Repository DNA bank with neurological disorders inclusive of rare diseases. Serving the nation provides freebie molecular diagnostics for Neuro-Genetic diseases. As Principal supervisor producing Double Doctoral and Master’s Degree in neuroscience with prestigious international universities.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS:
USA
- University of Houston, USA
- Maryland Stroke Center, Dept Neurology, Baltimore, USA
- George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
- Northern Kentucky University (NKU),
- Binghamton University; The State University of New York, USA
Australia
- The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
- School of Medical Science, Griffith University.
- Edith Crown University, Western Australia
- University of Western Australia
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
UK
- Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge, UK
Netherlands
- European Graduate School for Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
China
- School of Pharmacy, Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China
India
- National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, (NIMHANS) Bangalore,
- Diagnostic Division, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics [CDFD],
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh,
- CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR),
- Manipal University. Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)
- South Asian University (SAU)
Korea - Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI), South Korea
- The National Creative Research Initiative Centre for Alzheimer’s Dementia, Neuroscience Research Institute, Seoul Nat’l Univ. KOREA
Singapore
- Dept of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Taiwan
- National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYU), Taiwan
- Member of the Governing Council of International Brain Research Organization, France,
- Council Member, Federation of Asian and Oceanic Neuroscience Societies, Japan
- Council Member, Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry, Singapore,
- Fellow of The Indian Academy of Neurosciences
- Coordinator, European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) in Sri Lanka, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Coordinator, DAILAB@USJP- Sri Lanka: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science (“AIST”), Japan
- Organizer, International Workshop in Neuroscience: 1999, 2004, 2006, 2012 & 2015,
- https://www.sjp.ac.lk/wcup/IBRO/
- Co- Chair, Tradmed International – 2017-Sri Lanka, International Conference on Traditional Medicine, Educational Exhibition &Trade Fair– 2017, Ministry of Health, Nutrition & Indigenous Medicine
- Initiated the MoU establishing joint MSc between Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and KDU in Biotechnology and Neuroscience
Editorial Board Member in Medical and Neuroscience Journal
- Editorial Advisory Member, Annals of Neurosciences, (Index PubMed)
ISSN: 0972-7531 (Print), SAGE Publications Inc, - International Scientific Advisory Board Member, Neuroscience Research Notes (Indexed in scopus) (ISSN 2576-828X; www.neuroscirn.org)
- Frontiers in Neuroscience – Impact Factor 4.677
