Neelika Malavige

Neelika Malavige is a Professor and Head of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and also a visiting academic at the University of Oxford since 2008 after completing her doctoral studies at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases since 2020. She is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London the Royal College of Pathologists in 2015. She serves as an expert member on several government COVID-19 related technical advisory groups. She leads a large research group working on dengue, and COVID-19. Her work on dengue has focused on factors that lead to severe dengue, identification of biomarkers and mediators of vascular leak in dengue. Her work on COVID-19 is mainly related to immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines, immunopathogenesis and determining correlates of protection against COVID-19. She has strong research collaborations with University of Oxford and her laboratory is a part of the A2CARES, which is one of the Centres for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. She has won many awards and received many local and international grants.