Achievers

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Primary and Secondary Education at Royal College, Colombo 

Represented Royal at Tennis and Debating. Held Public Schools Tennis Colours for five (5) years running

Selected to represent Sri Lanka in Tennis - under 18 team - 1965

Tertiary: Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) – (Second Class Honours)

Post Graduate:  

                                Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons 

                                Edinburgh, UK 1984

                                Master of Surgery (MS) 1986

                                University of Sri Lanka

Career:

Returned to Sri Lanka in 1986 after obtaining fellowship and appointed as Trauma Surgeon to Accident Service Colombo. 

 Following MS Sri Lanka, appointed as Assistant Cardiothoracic Surgeon Colombo

Proceeded to John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford UK in 1989 December for further training in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Moved to Cardiothoracic Unit at University Hospital Cardiff for a further year from January 1992 to January 1993 before returning to Sri Lanka in February 1993.

Worked as Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the National Hospital Colombo till July 1995. Appointed to Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital (Teaching) as Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon - July 1995 and retired in November 2012 

During the tenure at SJGH, carried out the first Arterial Switch Operation for TGA in Sri Lanka and introduced and established Paediatric and Neonatal open heart surgery in Sri Lanka carrying out procedures such as Rastelli and Sennings operation. 

During the same period carried out the first Aortic Arch Replacement in Sri Lanka thus introducing Thoracic Aortic Surgery to the country. Other Aortic surgery included Aortic Root Replacement and Elephant Trunk procedure for Aortic Aneurysms. 

Following retirement was appointed as the Clinical Director to the Hemas Chain of Hospitals from December 2012 to date. During this period introduced for the first time positive and negative pressure isolation rooms for the ICU in the Private Sector Hospitals in Sri Lanka. Currently is in the process of establishing Electronic Heath Records in the hospital chain.

In 2018 was appointed by H.E. the President of Sri Lanka as the Chairman of the Health Sector for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 for Sri Lanka.

Awards: 

• Young investigator’s prize awarded by the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka in1989 for work on Atrial Myxomas.
• Frank Gunesekera Prize awarded by the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka in 1993 for work on Pericardial closure of Atrial Septal defects in Sri Lanka. 
•  Felicitated by the College of Cardiologist in January 2023
• Awarded the ‘Life Time Achievement in Cardiothoracic Surgery” by the Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons in January 2023

Lecture Presentations:  

• Guest lecture on “All stab injuries of the heart are not necessarily fatal” – a personal experience as a trauma surgeon,  at the 50th Annual Sessions of the Medico – Legal society of Sri Lanka, Colombo, in 1987. 
•  Sir Arthur Silva Memorial Oration at the Annual Surgeons conference – “Total Correction of Fallot - Sri Lankan experience”, Colombo, Sri Lanka1999.
• Handy Memorial Lecture at the Annual Physician’s conference - “Valve Replacement in Sri Lanka”, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2000. 
• The Sri Lanka Heart Association Inaugural Lecture on “Aortic Aneurysms and their repair”, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2001.
• Pramod Ranatunga Memorial Lecture at the annual SAARC Cardiology conference – Colombo- 2009 – Pulmonary Hypertension and its management.
• Sir Nicholas Attygalle Oration – Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension Lessons Learnt – Colombo – November 2009
• Ravi Pillai Oration at the annual Cardiothoracic conference – Ethics, The Law and Cardiothoracic Surgery – January 2024 

  Mentoring: 

• Post Graduate trainer for Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Sri Lanka. Have mentored five (4)

                      Cardiac Surgeons in SL

Training Programs Established:

• Paramedical Training Programme for the Armed Services ( sponsored by Rotary Club - Mid City)
• Cardiothoracic Nurses Training Programme for Galle, Kandyand LRH

Membership of Professional Societies: 

•  Past President of the Sri Lanka Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
•  Member of the Sri Lanka Heart Association
•  Former member of the Board of Directors – Childrens’ Heart Project of Sri Lanka
•  Former member of the Board of Study for Surgery , Post Graduate Institute of Medicine Sri Lanka 
• Vice President -Sri Lanka Cancer Society

Administrative Posts Held:

• Member of the Board of Directors – Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital 
• Member of the Technical Evaluation Committee for the construction of the new Cardiothoracic Unit at Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital
• Currently is the Consultant in  Clinical Governance and Implementation of Electronic Health Records  

 Extra-Curricular Activities: 

• Music 
• Dancing ( Ballroom and Latin American)
• Sudoku
• Was a judge for the Miss Sri Lanka Contest two years running.

is a Sri Lankan clinical academic with expertise in diagnostic clinical microbiology and research, senior executive level administration, and dental pedagogy and is best known for his work with Candidiasis. After serving as a Consultant Clinical Microbiologist in Glasgow, UK he joined the academia. Since then, working in five different trans-continental universities, he has authored over 450 scientific communications, cited over 33,000 occasions (h-index 100). He is also the #11 ranked clinical microbiologist in China out of 42,000+ scientists (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/microbiology/cn). 

Samaranayake served over 12 years as the Executive Dean of two major dental schools in Hong Kong (a top five ranking dental school globally), and Australia at the University of Hong Kong and University of Queensland, respectively.   He holds many visiting/honorary professor appointments in the universities of Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, the UK, the Middle East, and China

Samaranayake has received many accolades as an Asian/Sri Lankan:

• The first medical/dental professional from Asia to receive the coveted King James IV Professorship award of the Royal College of Surgeons  of Edinburgh for services to surgical sciences
• The first Sri Lankan dental professional to receive the  Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) award from the University of Peradeniya
• The only Sri Lankan, to have spearheaded, as a Dean, the  creation of a university faculty that is ranked number 1 in the World  at the University of Hong Kong (QS World  University Rankings)
• The only Sri Lankan to be a Dean of two major University Faculties (at the University of Hong Kong, and University of Queensland,  Australia
• The first Sri Lankan dental professional to receive the  Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK
• The first Asian dentist, to receive the Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research
• The sole dentist from Sri Lanka to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal Australasian College of Dentists, the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Edinburgh, and the Hong Kong College of Dental Surgeons

Finally, he has authored a number of student texts, one of which, Essential Microbiology for Dentistry (6the Edition, 2024), considered the seminal text on the subject, has been translated into five different languages, with sales of over 50,000 copies, and used as a recommended student text, globally. 

Lakshman was featured in the JULY 2024 LMD INTERNATIONAL HONGKONG issue. In his interview he pointed out the need for Sri Lankan philanthropists to join hand with the university system un Sri Lanka for the betterment of tertiary education as the public purse alone can not sustain the world class free education delivering  institutions we inherited. His mission he said was to begin a novel Endowed Professorship scheme in the motherland.

FRCP (Lon), FRCPE (Edin), FRACP, FCCP, FSLCGP, FNASSL is a Sri Lankan academic, nephrologist and physician. He served as the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine; senior professor of medicine; head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. He is currently serving as the Senior Professor of Medicine at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. 

He is also a consultant physician and nephrologist at National Hospital Sri Lanka. He is widely regarded as the Father of Nephrology or either hailed as Father of Modern Nephrology and Dialysis. He masterminded and pioneered kidney transplantation in Sri Lanka. He is also the founder and owner of Western Hospital.

Sheriff began his formal education at Zahira College Colombo and later received a scholarship and moved to Royal College Colombo. He subsequently entered the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he obtained both Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and later Doctor of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Ceylon College of Physicians.

After qualification, he was appointed as a lecturer in medicine in the Department of Medicine under Professor Kumaradasa Rajasuriya in 1973. He obtained MRCP after completing his postgraduate training in the UK and he returned to Sri Lanka. He went onto have one of the longest academic careers in Sri Lankan university system.

He and his collaborator AH Sheriffdeen set up the first transplant programme in the country in October 1985. It also turned out to be the first ever kidney transplant in Sri Lanka as it was successfully achieved with the assistance of Colombo University team which also included Geri Jayasekara. 

The successful kidney transplant was a moral booster for many Sri Lankans who previously had to travel all the way to India to undergo such treatment. He and Surendra Ramachandran pioneered the speciality of Nephrology in Sri Lanka. Nearly 1,000 transplants have been done under his supervision. 

Rezvi was appointed as Professor of Medicine in 1990 and eight years later he was promoted as senior professor in Medicine in 1998.

He is a member of the senior advisory board to SACTRC (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration) with Nimal Senanayake, Ravindra Fernando and Janaka de Silva. He founded the OxCol (University of Oxford Colombo link) for studies on snake bite and yellow oleander poisoning. He was president of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Ceylon College of Physicians, Sri Lanka Association for Nephrology and Transplantation, SAARC Society of Nephrology, Urology and Transplant Surgery and the Founder President of the Hypertension Society in Sri Lanka in addition to being a founder of the Health Informatics Society in Sri Lanka and a councillor of the International Society of Nephrology. He is an External Examiner for MRCP in UK & Chennai. He is the Ceylon College of Physician Coordinator for MRCP Examinations in Sri Lanka. He was appointed as the President of Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2009.

He has published widely in Nephrology, Transplantation, Snake Bite and Oleander Poisoning.

He is also the founder chairman of Western Infirmary Hospital in Colombo, a center known for renal disease care, dialysis and transplantation. In 2011, he was rated as the top scientist from Sri Lanka according to the Web of Science database.

He retired from University of Colombo on September 30, 2014, after rendering 41 years of service. During his illustrious career, his research interests included snake bites, Toxicology, Nephrology, noncommunicable diseases, medical education and chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology. 

Following his kidney transplant, he is set to undertake a major kidney transplant programme at the Kotelewala Defence University.

Rezvi is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Honorary Fellow of the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka and a Fellow of the National Academy of Science of Sri Lanka.

The titular prestigious honour, Vidya Jyothi was conferred upon him by the Government of Sri Lanka in 1993 in recognition of his contribution to Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation in Sri Lanka. He also received a Lion International Merit Award.

Is a pathologist in Pasadena, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Keck Hospital of USC and LAC & USC Medical Center. He has been in practice for more than 45 years.

Para, was invited to the WHO panel of experts on adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction, and, was also elected to the Best Doctors in America list, from 1998 to the present. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the European Surgery, International Advisory Board of “Esophagus” (Springer, Tokyo), the Official Journal of The Japan Esophageal Society, 2003, International panel of reviewers for the Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2002, Editorial Board, Diseases of the Esophagus, the Official Journal of The International Society For Diseases of the Esophagus, 2000, and acted as reviewer for Neurosurgery, Gut, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Modern Pathology, Lab Investigation, Annals of Surgery.

Took up a career in Architecture and is now, an academic, resident in Japan. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Ritsumeikan Trust, from April 2004 until January 2010, and was also the President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan where he remains a Professor, to date. Feliciated by the Japanese Government and the Japanese Emperor, he was presented an Honorary Award for the contribution made by him to higher education in Japan and the strengthening of friendly ties between Japan and Sri Lanka.

Ahmed has been appointed as the Chancellor of the Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka commencing 2024.

Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai (born 1947) is an academic economist and a Senior Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics and was, formerly, (Distinguished) Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City and Professore di Chiara Fama in the Department of Economics at the University of Trento, Italy.

Born

September 25, 1947

Colombo, British Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka)

Alma mater

University of Kyoto

University of Lund

University of Cambridge

Scientific career

Fields

Computable Economics

Macroeconomic Theory

History of economic thought

Philosophy of Economics

Institutions

University of Trento, Italy

New School for Social Research, Italy

Doctoral advisor

Richard Goodwin

Current work

His work is almost entirely devoted to Computable Economics, Macroeconomic Theory and the History and Philosophy of Economics. Within Computable Economics, his major focus has been an attempt to mathematize economic theory—both micro and macro theory—using the methods of recursion theory and constructive mathematics.

Education

His high school education was at Royal College Colombo. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; he obtained a master's degree in economics at the Department of Economics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden and a PhD in economics at Cambridge University (King's College). His PhD supervisor, initially, was Lord Kaldor and, subsequently, and decisively, Richard Goodwin.

Academic posts

He has held tenured and visiting appointments at the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, UCLA, the People's University in Beijing and several other European Universities and Research Institutions. He is the founder of the Algorithmic Social Sciences Research Unit[2] at the University of Trento.

A Festschrift in Vela Velupillai's honour, Computable, Constructive and Behavioural Economic Dynamics,[3] edited by Stefano Zambelli, was published by Routledge. A Special Issue of the journal New Mathematics and Natural Computation, edited by Shu-Heng, in honour of Vela Velupillai, was published in March 2012.

Influences

He lists, in an autobiographical statement, those who have influenced him, in his visions of economics. They are, primarily, the following:

Björn Thalberg and Gunnar Myrdal: The Oslo tradition of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo and The Swedish tradition of Knut Wicksell, Erik Lindahl, Gunnar Myrdal, Dag Hammarskjöld and Erik Lundberg

Cambridge iconoclasm: Nicholas Kaldor, Piero Sraffa, Geoff Harcourt and, in particular, Richard Goodwin

John Hicks, Robert Clower, John McCall, and Dick Day: Critical traditions of neo-classical economics.

Lance Taylor: Development Economics

Herbert A. Simon: Classical Behavioural Economics.[4]

Tony Lawson: Economic Methodology

Other mathematical, epistemological and philosophical intellectual influences: Guglielmo Chiodi, Stefano Zambelli, Alan Turing, Luitzen Brouwer, Errett Bishop, Edmund Husserl and Alberto Quadrio Curzio.

Key books

Nonlinear and Multisectoral Macrodynamics: Essays in Honour of Richard Goodwin. (edited) Macmillan, London, 1989.

Computable Economics (The Fourth Arne Ryde Lectures) Oxford University Press, January, 2000.

Computable Foundations for Economics, Routledge, February, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-35567-4

The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Elgar Companion to Computable Economics, Editor (with the assistance of: Stephen Kinsella & Stefano Zambelli), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, November, 2011

Main articles

"Irving Fisher on `Switches of Techniques´: A Historical Note", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 4, November, pp. 679–680, 1975.

"Rationality, Computability and Complexity", (with B. Rustem), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 14, No. 2, May, pp. 419–432, 1990.

"The Vintage Economist", The Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Vol.37, No.1, Sep., pp. 1–31, 1998.

"Richard Goodwin: 1913-1996", The Economic Journal, Vol. 108, September, 1998, pp. 1436–1449.

"Effectivity and Constructivity in Economic Theory", The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol.49, Issue, 3, pp. 307–325, November, 2002.

Velupillai, K. V. (2005). "The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in economics". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 29 (6): 849. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.194.6586. doi:10.1093/cje/bei084.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2006). "Algorithmic foundations of computable general equilibrium theory". Applied Mathematics and Computation. 179: 360. doi:10.1016/j.amc.2005.11.113.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2006). "A disequilibrium macrodynamic model of fluctuations". Journal of Macroeconomics. 28 (4): 752. doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2004.10.002. hdl:10379/1107. S2CID 53694583.

"Sraffa’s Constructive Mathematical Economics", Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 15, No.4, December, pp. 325–348, 2008.

"The Mathematization of Macroeconomics", Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics], Vol. XXV, Issue 3, August, pp. 283–316, 2008.

"Uncomputability and Undecidability in Economic Theory", Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 215, Issue 4, 15 October, pp. 1404–1416, 2009.

"Variations on the Theme of Conning in Mathematical Economics", "Journal of Economic Surveys", Volume 21, Issue 3, 466–505, July 2007.

"Development Economics without Growth Theory", Economia Politica[Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics], Vol.XXVII, Issue 1,9-54, 2010.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2011). "Towards an Algorithmic Revolution In Economic Theory". Journal of Economic Surveys. 25 (3): 401. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6419.2011.00684.x. S2CID 14601813.

"The Phillips Machine and the Epistemology of Analogue Computation", Economia Politica [Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics], Vol. XXVII, 39-62, Special Issue, 2011.

Ragupathy, Venkatachalam; Velupillai, Kumaraswamy Vela (2012). "Origins and Early Development of the Nonlinear Endogenous Mathematical Theory of the Business Cycle". Economia Politica. 29 (1): 45–80. doi:10.1428/36746.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2012). "Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the Undecidable in Mathematical Economics" (PDF). New Mathematics and Natural Computation. 08: 5. doi:10.1142/S1793005712400017. S2CID 53341157.

Kao, Ying-Fang; Ragupathy, V.; Velupillai, K. Vela; Zambelli, Stefano (2012). "Noncomputability, unpredictability, undecidability, and unsolvability in economic and finance theories" (PDF). Complexity. 18 (1): 51. Bibcode:2012Cmplx..18a..51K. doi:10.1002/cplx.21410.

Velupillai, K. V. (2013). "Towards a political economy of the theory of economic policy". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 38 (6): 1329. doi:10.1093/cje/bet059.

Velupillai, K.Vela; Kao, Ying-Fang (2014). "Computable and computational complexity theoretic bases for Herbert Simon's cognitive behavioral economics". Cognitive Systems Research. 29–30: 40. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2013.07.005. S2CID 11906572.

Kao, Ying-Fang; Velupillai, K. Vela (2013). "Behavioural economics: Classical and modern". The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 22 (2): 236. doi:10.1080/09672567.2013.792366. S2CID 45718887.

Vela Velupillai, K. (2014). "Constructive and computable Hahn–Banach theorems for the (second) fundamental theorem of welfare economics". Journal of Mathematical Economics. 54: 36. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.686.9949. doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.08.004.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2013). "Negishi's Theorem and Method: Computable and Constructive Considerations". Computational Economics. 45 (2): 183. doi:10.1007/s10614-013-9416-5. S2CID 121283474.

Velupillai, K. Vela (2015). "Iteration,tâtonnement, computation and economic dynamics". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 39 (6): 1551. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.680.2895. doi:10.1093/cje/bev051.

Vela Velupillai, K. (2016). "Seven Kinds of Computable and Constructive Infelicities in Economics". New Mathematics and Natural Computation. 12 (3): 219. doi:10.1142/S1793005716500150

International Awards, Fellowships, Memberships & Prizes

• Elected Member, Turing Centenary      Advisory Committee (TCAC), December, 2010[5]
• Elected to give the Herbert Simon      Lectures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, March, 2010.
• Elected to give the Krishna      Bharadwaj Lecture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, March,      2010.
• Elected Foreign Member, Moral      Sciences Division of the Juridical, Political and Economic Sciences,      Istituto Lombardo, Italy, July, 2010.
• Awarded the ‘2009 Nord-Sud      Fondazione Pescarabbruzzo Prize’[6] for the Social Sciences,      Fondazione Pescarabbruzzo, Pescara, Italy, October, 2009.
• Elected Foreign Corresponding      Member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, 17 April 2006.
• Elected to give the Laudatio      Lecture in Honour of Richard Day, Max Planck Institute, Jena, May, 2008.
• Elected to a Visiting      Fellowship, Peterhouse, Cambridge, 2001.
• Honorary Professor, Queen’s      University of Belfast, Belfast, UK, 1998-2003.
• Standing Senior Visiting      Professor, Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India, 1998 --.
• Distinguished Invited Lecturer,      Central Bank of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1998.
• Elected to give the Arne Ryde      Lectures, University of Lund, Sweden, 1994.
• US National Science      Foundation/Ford Foundation Visiting Professorship at the People’s      University, Beijing, China, 1988.
• C.O.R.E,      Research Fellowship, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve,      Belgium, 1977/78.

born 2 February 1948  is a Sri Lankan politician and lawyer. He is a Member of Parliament from the Kandy District, former Leader of the House of the parliament. Also he held office as Minister of Public Enterprises and Kandy Development and as Minister of Higher Education and Highways from 2015 to 2019.

Educated at Royal College, Colombo and Sri Lanka Law College, he became a practicing lawyer before entering politics. He has elected to Parliament in 1989, he has been a Member ever since. He has served as the Minister of Tourism and Sports and the Deputy minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2015 he was appointed as the Leader of the House of the United National Party Government under Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.

Ratnapala, Suri (2017).Jurisprudence. 3rd ed. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Ratnapala, Suri and Crowe, Jonathan (2012).Australian constitutional law: foundations and theory. 3rd ed. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Ratnapala, Anura S. (2009).Jurisprudence. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Ratnapala, S., John, Thomas, Karean, Vanitha and Koch, Cornelia (2007).Australian constitutional law: Commentary and cases. South Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Ratnapala, Suri (2007).Australian constitutional law: Foundations and theory. 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press.

Ratnapala, A. S. (2002).Australian constitutional law, foundations & theory. 1 ed. Vic.: Oxford University Press.

Stephenson, M. A. (Margaret Anne) and Ratnapala, Suri (1993).Mabo : a judicial revolution : the Aboriginal land rights decision and its impact on Australian law. Pub. as a special edition of the University of Queensland law journal. ed. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.

Ratnapala, Suri (2019).Reform and crisis: reflections on the culture of constitutional government in Sri Lanka. Constitutional reform and crisis in Sri Lanka. (pp. 240-262) edited by Asanga Welikala. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Ratnapala, Suri (2018).Decline and fall of Sri Lanka's judiciary and prospects for resurrection. Asia-Pacific judiciaries: independence, impartiality and integrity. (pp. 305-329) edited by H. P. Lee and Marilyn Pittard. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316480946.016 

Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Haematology and Cancer Institute, University College, London

Education: Royal Primary School and Royal College, Colombo

BSc First Class Hons, University of London; PhD, University of London

Academic activities: Undergraduate, post-graduate and academic career at the University of London.  Department of Haematology/ Cancer Institute at University College, London, 1979 to 2014. Research focussed on genetic and cell biological mechanisms underlying leukaemia. Lectures on this and related topics to science and medical undergraduates . Mentoring of PhD students and post-doctoral scientists.

Extra-curricular interests:

Composing and performing music in classical and jazz fields. Theatre, ballet and opera. Experimenting with international cuisine.

Selected publications;

1. Albumin activates the AKT signalling pathway and protects B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells from chlorambucil- and radiation-induced apoptosis. DT Jones, K Ganeshaguru, RJ Anderson, TR Jackson, KR Bruckdorfer, SY Low, L Palmqvist, HG Prentice, AV Hoffbrand, AB Mehta and RG Wickremasinghe. Blood 101: 3174-3180 (2003)

2. Selective apoptotic killing of malignant hemopoietic cells by antibody-targeted delivery of an amphipathic peptide. Marks AJ, Cooper MS, Anderson RJ, Orchard KH, Hale G, North JM, Ganeshaguru K, Steele AJ, Mehta AB, Lowdell MW, Wickremasinghe RG. Cancer Res 65 :2373-7 (2005).

3 .p53-mediated apoptosis of CLL cells: evidence for a transcription-independent mechanism.Steele AJ, Prentice AG, Hoffbrand AV, Yogashangary BC, Hart SM, Nacheva EP, Howard-Reeves JD, Duke VM, Kottaridis PD, Cwynarski K, Vassilev LT, Wickremasinghe RG. Blood. 2008 Nov 1;112(9):3827-34. 

4. The JAK3-selective inhibitor PF-956980 reverses the resistance to cytotoxic agents induced by interleukin-4 treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells: potential for reversal of cytoprotection by the microenvironment.Steele AJ, Prentice AG, Cwynarski K, Hoffbrand AV, Hart SM, Lowdell MW, Samuel ER, Wickremasinghe RG. Blood. 2010 Nov 25;116(22):4569-77

5. The Molecular Basis of Leukaemia and Lymphoma. RG Wickremasinghe, AV Hoffbrand. In: Postgraduate Haematology. AV Hoffbrand, SM Lewis, EGD Tuddenham (eds.) Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, (1998). Pp 354-372.

Contributor to several editions of Essential HaematoHHaematology by A Victor Hoffbrand