Professor Neelika Malavige

Professor, Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Neelika Malavige is a Professor at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases. She is an academic visitor at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. She is a medical graduate from the University of Colombo and carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and at the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. Her research focus has been on immunopathogenesis of dengue, biomarkers and immune correlates of protection and translating these findings into clinical trials. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her laboratory led the COVID-19 response by genomic sequencing, vaccine immunogenicity studies and studies on population immunity. She has received many awards for her research on dengue and for her mentoring and public engagement activities including the outstanding role model award and the most inspiring woman award.