Research Activities

Collaborative study projects

• OX-COL project (with the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford and University of Liverpool)

• developing a species specific anti venom against Sri Lankan snakes
• a search for effective therapy for Kaneru (Yellow Oleander) poisoning

• Malaria project in collaboration with the Malaria Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo
• Post transplant infection study in collaboration with the Medical Research Institute, Colombo

Some publications from our academic members

DeMel WCP, Sheriff MHR, Dharmadasa K. Hepatic granuloma in pyrexia of unknown origin in Sri Lanka. Jounal of Ceylon College of Physicians 1983

Jayasinghe KSA, Misbah SA et al. Contaminated opium as a source of chronic arsenic poisoning in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Medical Journal 1983; 28: p 22-27

Athukorale SD, Sheriff MHR. Aminoglycosides in advanced renal failure. Ceylon Medical Journal 1984; 29: p 101-103

Welihinda J, Karunanayake E, Jayasinghe KSA, Sheriff MHR. Effect of Momordica Charantia on the glucose tolerance in maturity onset diabetes. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1986; 17: p 277-282

Sheriff MHR, Sheriffdeen AH, Jayasekera G. The first kidney transplantation in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Medical Journal 1987; 32: p 15-27

Masson EA, Veves A, Fernando DJS, Boulton AJM. Current perception thresholds: a quick and reporducible method of assessing peripheral nerve function in diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia 1989; 32: p 724 - 728

Webb AR, Fernando SSD, Dalton HR, Arrowsmith JE, Woodhead MA, Cummin ARC . Local anaesthesia for fibreoptic bronchocopy: transcricoid injection or the "spray as you go" technique. Thorax 1990; 45: p 474 -477

De Mel WCP, Hoffbrand AV, Giles FJ et al. Alpha interferon therapy for haematological malignancies: correlation between in vivo induction of the 2', 5' oligoadenylate system and clinical response. Br J Haem 1990:74; p 452 - 456

Nanayakkara LSH et al. Living related donor kidney transplantation in Sri Lanka. Transplantation Proceedings 1992; 24: p 1816-1817

Nanayakkara LSH et al. Sri Lankan experience with three immunosuppressive protocols in living related donor kidney transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings 1992; 24: p 1818

Fernando DJS, Siribaddana SH, De Silva DR Subasinghe SZ. the prevalence of retinopathy in a Sri Lankan diabetic clinic. Ceylon Medical Journal 1993; 38: p 120-123

Fernando DJS, Siribaddana SH, Perera N et al. The prevalence of macrovascular disease in a Sri Lankan diabetic clinic. Postgraduate Medical Journal 1993; 69: p 557-561

Fernando SSD, Saunders KB. Ventilatory sensitivity to single breaths of carbon-dioxide around the control point in man. Respiration Physiology 1995; 99: pp 205 - 214

Al-Saady NM, Fernando SSD, Petros AJ, Cummin ARC, Sidhu VS, Bennett ED. External high frequency oscillation in normal subjects and in patients with acute respiratory failure. Anaesthesia 1995; 50: pp 1031-1035.

Lanerolle RD, de Abrew K, Fernando DJS, Sheriff MHR. Post-renal transplant diabetes in Sri lanka. Transplantation Proceedings 1996; 28: p 1947-1949