{"id":55542,"date":"2021-01-02T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=55542"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:07:00","slug":"sri-lankan-scientist-contributing-to-the-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sri-lankan-scientist-contributing-to-the-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Scientist contributing to the COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 28px;\">Sri Lankan Scientist contributing to the COVID-19 Vaccine<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55543 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dr-Danushka-Kumara-Wijesundara.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Danushka Kumara Wijesundara\" width=\"234\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800000;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/daehaena-monthly-e-newsletter-january-2021-radio-4eb-sri-lankan-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D\u00e6h\u00e6na \u2013 Monthly e-Newsletter January 2021<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sri Lankan scientist Dr Danushka Kumara Wijesundara has been on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the University of Queensland (UQ) team who were tasked to develop <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">a coronavirus vaccine as a component of Australia\u2019s response to target <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the COVID-19 pandemic. While it was unfortunate that the wide scale <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">clinical trials of the vaccine were aborted, the contribution of the team <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">to science and rapid vaccine development is undisputed.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Recently, Daehaena sat with Dr Wijesundara and discussed the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">challenges and joys of doing cutting edge research.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D: Where did you have your education and what experiences were you <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">exposed to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">DW: After my primary school <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">education in Sri Lanka, most of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">my secondary schooling and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">schooling in general was accomplished at The International <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">School of Yangon (ISY), <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Myanmar when the country was <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">under the rule of a military junta. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">During this time, Myanmar had <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">limited access to the internet and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the outside world which encouraged me to interact\/make friends <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">with locals from low-income <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">dwellings who did not speak <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">English or Sinhalese and in doing <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">so I learned to speak the national (Burmese) language and to be <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">satisfied with limited possessions. One of my fondest memories was <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">playing football (soccer) in the rain, and in many cases using bare feet <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">to kick footballs made of cheap (affordable to the locals) plastic. I am <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">grateful for the life I experienced in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, being <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">raised by loving parents and for the education I received at ISY, all of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">which were inspirational for me to be driven in the path of vaccine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I came to Australia to undertake a Bachelor of Biotechnology at the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Australian National University (ANU), but it was during my honours <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">year I started to perform \u2018real-life\u2019 research on immunity to viruses <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">which is fundamental for developing rational vaccines to target <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">viruses. Following this experience, as a PhD student at ANU and an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">early career fellow at the University of Adelaide, I was part of projects <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">that resulted in the development of several vaccines for HIV, hepatitis <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">C virus and Zika virus. This experience prepared me for the most <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">challenging undertaking of my career thus far which is the expedited <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">development of a coronavirus vaccine at UQ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D: How did you get involved with the UQ Team developing the vaccine?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">DW: I was made aware of an exciting research <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">opportunity to develop protein vaccines in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">quickest possible manner whilst attempting to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">maintain accuracy against emerging viruses <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">with the potential to cause epidemics\/<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">pandemics using the proprietary \u2018Molecular <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Clamp\u2019 vaccine technology. I got the job in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">May 2019 and at that stage we were optimising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the vaccine development pipeline to make it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">function in the quickest possible manner using <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">several viruses with no effective vaccines available to target them. I believed this job will provide me an once in a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">lifetime opportunity to get involved in vaccine development that one <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">would be able to see from initial research to human clinical trials in a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">short period of time, which would otherwise take decades.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D: What are the challenges and excitements in working in this kind <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">of project?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dr-Danushka-Kumara-Wijesundara-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">DW: The excitement is working at the cutting edge of vaccine technology and to develop a vaccine for human use at almost \u2018record <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">speed\u2019. The biggest challenge is maintaining accuracy whilst vaccine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">development progresses at a very rapid speed. There are also high <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">expectations from the public when you are at the forefront of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">vaccine development and the ambassadors of Australia\u2019s vaccine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">response for COVID-19.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">D: Are you disappointed that the project had to be abandoned?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">DW: Disappointed of course. In science, many vaccines do not<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">complete the different phases of human clinical testing to ultimately <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">be applied in the real world to benefit the general public. Although I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">believed we will get this opportunity with our vaccine, our trial as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">you are well aware was halted in the most unfortunate circumstances.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">It is disappointing we could not progress the vaccine further because <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the data in the Phase I human study showed that the vaccine can <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">evoke robust anti-viral and virus neutralising immune responses. Our <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">goal now is to make alternative versions of the Molecular Clamp to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">avoid issues associated with HIV diagnostic interference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan Scientist contributing to the COVID-19 Vaccine Source:D\u00e6h\u00e6na \u2013 Monthly e-Newsletter January 2021 Sri Lankan scientist Dr Danushka Kumara Wijesundara has been on the University of Queensland (UQ) team who were tasked to develop a coronavirus vaccine as a component of Australia\u2019s response to target the COVID-19 pandemic. 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