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DrRasika Samarasinghe

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Australian Epigenetic Alliance - Executive Commitee Member (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2024
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  • JOURNAL EDITORIAL ROLE
    Editorial Board Member - Epigenetics
    1 Jan 2025
    Epigenetics
  • JOURNAL EDITORIAL ROLE
    Editorial Board Member - Cancers
    1 Jan 2025
    Cancers Journal
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Featured media article - Deakin IMPACT (opens in a new tab)⁠
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  • AFFILIATION
    Inflammation Research Association - Member
    Member
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best ECR research contribution
    3rd Cancer and Metabolism Symposium (Sydney, 2019)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    COGNO-Bristol-Myers Squibb Young Investigator Award
    Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology Conference
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Scientist Prize – Most Outstanding Research Presentation
    University Hospital Geelong Research Week
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Early Career Researcher - Best Top 5 presentations
    Weizmann symposium Future directions in cancer biology & targeted therapeutics, Melbourne
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Publication Scholarship
    Deakin University
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best PhD poster presentation
    17th International Inflammation Research Association Conference, New York, USA (2012)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best 3rd/4th year PhD oral presenter
    Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Annual Research Conference (2012)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best 1st year PhD oral presenter
    Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Annual Research Conference (2009)
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    FUTUREME - Speaker (2025 - current)
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Deakin University Biomedical Society Career's Night - Panel speaker (2020 - current)
    Invited panel speaker for the Careers annual event run by the DUBS students