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Call for Membership Applications Sri Lanka One Health University Network (SLOHUN)
The Sri Lanka One Health University Network (SLOHUN) is a pioneering national initiative bringing un...
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Welcoming 2026 at the Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre
As we begin 2026, the Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre (DRCRC) reaffirms its commitment to...
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President's Awards 2025
We proudly announce another national recognition received for a collaborative research publication a...
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Dr. Subodha Wickramasinghe Presents at ASTMH 2025
We are proud to announce that Dr. Subodha Wickramasinghe delivered a poster presentation at the 2025...
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Prof. Lakmal Fonseka Presents at ASTMH 2025
We are proud to announce that Prof. C. Lakmal Fonseka delivered an oral presentation at the 2025 Ann...
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Dr. Dhammika Palangasinghe Presents at ID Week 2025
We are proud to share that Dr. Dhammika Palangasinghe delivered a virtual poster presentation at ID...
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Visit of Dr. Bradly Nicholson to the Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre
The Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre (DRCRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, ha...
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Visit of Prof. Truls Østbye to the Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre
The Duke Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre (DRCRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, ha...
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Visit of Duke MD Candidate Zachary Weishampel to the Duke–Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre
The Duke–Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre (DRCRC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhu...
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Duke–Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre Publishes New Article on Two Decades of Global Health Partnership
We are delighted to announce that the Duke–Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre has published...
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Strengthening Global Partnerships: Duke-Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre and Duke-NUS Join Forces
On August 7, 2025, Prof. Ruklanthi De Alwis, Deputy Director of the Centre for Outbreak Preparedness...
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Dr. Subodha Wickramasinghe’s Presentation at the 34th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Microbiologists
Congratulations to Dr. Subodha Wickramasinghe, who recently presented a collaborative research abs...
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𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 – 𝟐 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞-𝐑𝐮𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Two New Studies Launched at the Duke-Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre to Address C...
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𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 - 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
With the end of the FMAS 2025 proceedings, a series of meetings were held between the Facu...
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𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐇𝐔𝐍 – 𝐒𝐫𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤
𝟤𝟪𝓉𝒽 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧 | 𝐹𝒶𝒸𝓊𝓁𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝒜𝒸𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓂𝒾𝒸 𝒮𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧, 𝒰𝓃𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝑅𝓊𝒽𝓊𝓃𝒶 We are delig...
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𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐅𝐌𝐀𝐒) - 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ruhuna successfully hosted Faculty of Medicin...
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Congratulations to Prof. Champica K. Bodinayake on her successful oration at the Ruhuna Clinical Society (RCS) Annual Academic Sessions 2024.
Prof. Champica K. Bodinayake, the Head of the Duke-Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre, Professor i...
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Celebrating Dr. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya’s Doctoral Achievement
We are delighted to announce the achievement by Dr. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, Senior Research Scientis...
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Congratulations to Ms. Lorenna Garcia-Bochas on presenting her research as an informative poster
Congratulations to Ms. Lorenna Garcia-Bochas on presenting her research as an informative poste...
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Ruhuna-Duke Centre for Infectious Diseases Holds Inaugural Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Ruhuna-Duke Centre for Infectious Diseases held its first Scientific Advisory Board Meeting on 25th...
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya for being recognized in Duke Global Health Institute Impact Report
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, our Senior Research Scientist of the Duk...
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Seminar for Budget Preparation for Research Grants Application
Click here to Register- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hOHy9PDHg4p5Ht3skuKoau7599gEVzV59pGPgG...
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Strengthening Duke-Ruhuna Collaborative Research Partnership
Marking a significant step forward in international research and academic collaboration, representat...
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Inaugural in-person meeting of the SLOHUN
On August 20, 2024, the Sri Lanka One Health University Network (SLOHUN) held its inaugura...
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Diverse Aetiologies of Acute Febrile Illness in Sri Lanka
A large study investigating the aetiologies of acute febrile illness (AFI) in hospitalized patients...
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Congratulations to the 3 presenters who presented under the Duke-Ruhuna Collaborative Research Centre the findings at the FMAS 2024
The Faculty of Medicine's Annual Academic Sessions (FMAS) 2024, held on May 8th at the T.W. Wikraman...
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Prof Chris Woods’ visit to the Duke-Ruhuna Centre for Infectious Diseases
Several fruitful meetings were held on 2nd and 3rd of May 2024 during Prof. Woods’ v...
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Dr. W. De Zoysa's poster presentation on Groundbreaking Research on Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tools at ESCMID Global 2024
We are delighted to share that Dr. W. De Zoysa recently virtually presented our latest re...
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Prof Ashley St. John and Mr. Sidharth Malhotra’s visit to the Ruhuna-Duke Centre for infectious Diseases
Prof Ashley St John and Mr. Sidharth Malhotra from the Duke-NUS Medical School visited the RDCID to...
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Duke-Ruhuna Research Team's Field Visit to the Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology (SLIBTEC)
Recently, the Duke Ruhuna Research team joined hands on an exciting collaboration with the Sri Lanka...
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Prof. Truls's Visit to the Duke-Ruhuna Collaboration
Prof. Truls Ostbye, Co-Director of RDCID, and Vice-Chair (Research), Community and Family Medicine,...
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Prof. Truls Ostbye's visit to Sri Lanka
Prof. Truls Ostbye's visit to Sri Lanka was marked by fruitful discussions, collaborative initiative...
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Introduction to Biostatistics and Data Analysis course conducted by Dr. Bhagya Senadheera.
In a dynamic and data-driven world, understanding the fundamentals of statistics is essential for ma...
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A compassionate act by the Duke-Ruhuna Office staff; alms to the Cancer Ward, Teaching Hospital Karapitiya.
Duke-Ruhuna office staff recently joined hands together to give alms to the Karapitiya Hospital Canc...
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Prof. Truls Ostbye's (Co-Director) Visit to Sri Lanka
The year 2023 ended with the visit of prof. Truls Ostbye, the Co-Director of the Duke-Ruhuna Collabo...
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Congratulations to Prof. Tillekeratne for her Successful Oration at the foundation sessions of SLMA 2023
Prof. Gayani Tillekeratne - Associate professor of Medicine, Division of infectious diseases, D...
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Joining hands with the faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna to strengthen the collaborative research activities
Prof. C. K. Bodinayake (the head), Prof. Gayani Tillekeratne and Mr. Buddhika Dilshan from the&nbs...
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Congratulations to the Duke-Ruhuna team for being awarded with the President's awards!
Ceremony to confer the President’s awards for the year 2019 organized by the ...
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Director and Deputy Director of DGHI’s visit to Sri Lanka and the 17th anniversary celebration
The director - Prof. Christopher Beyrer and the deputy director- Prof. Wendy O’...
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A new study by MSc student Lorenna Garcia-Bochas
Pre-Implementation evaluation of facility-wide antibiograms in low-and middle-income countries: A q...
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Prof. Ashley St. John's Visit To The Duke - Ruhuna Collaboration
Prof. Ashley St. John, Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School and PI of the Laboratory o...
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Prof. Christopher Woods's Visit to the Duke-Ruhuna Collaboration
Prof. Christopher Woods's Visit to the Duke-Ruhuna Collaboration Meetings were held with Prof. C. K...
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Published abstract and poster presentation for the international research & innovations symposium - Dengue Amidst The Pandemic 2022
A poster was presented based on the accepted abstract "Clinical Outcomes of Dengue Virus Infection I...
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel, Evidence-Based Algorithm for Managing Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in a Resource-Limited Setting
We got awarded a new grant – “A randomized controlled trial of a novel, evidence-based a...
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Donating Some Essential Medical Supplies to the Teaching Hospital Karapitiya
Donated some essential medical supplies to the Teaching Hospital Karapitiya on 02nd of January 2023....
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Started Sample Testing
Testing of sample collecting for the R21-funded study to identify nasopharyngeal signatures for bact...
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Started collecting samples and data for two new studies.
After a long pause due to Covid, we are back at sample and data collection for the study - "Respirat...
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VARAGUNAM MEMORIAL ORATION 2022
Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine 6th Annual Academic Sess...
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Certificate Awarding Ceremony
The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health at Duke University awarded certificates to Dr. Thy...
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Initiation of our latest study-Covid-19 and dengue cross reactivity
"Determination of biomarkers of disease severity in Covid-19 patients and rates of dengue cross reac...
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Donated micro centrifuge and refrigerated micro centrifuge by DGHI
Hettich UNIVERSAL 320/320R Refrigerated Centrifuge & Sorvall Legend Micro 17 Microcentrifuge wer...
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Ongoing Covid-19 Testings
The DUKE - Ruhuna collaborative research centre has helped in facilitating the COVID- 19 RT PCR test...
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President's Award for Scientific Research 2021
President’s Award for highly-rated scientific research, as evaluated by peers and published in...
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