Dr. Dulika Sumathipala

Biography

Dulika Sumathipala completed her medical undergraduate education followed by a research master's in clinical genetics and a PhD at the University of Oslo, Norway in 2022. Her doctoral research focused on discovering the genetic basis of rare diseases using high-throughput sequencing technology and understanding the molecular mechanisms of disease causation through in-silico and in-vitro technologies. She gained valuable experience in analyzing whole exome and whole genome sequencing data, including the use of scripts to produce VCF and fastq files, and filtering VCF files to identify pathogenic SNVs and indels in patients with rare diseases. Additionally, her EMBO research fellowship at UMC Radboud in Nijmegen, Netherlands, enhanced her bioinformatics knowledge. She utilized wet lab molecular tools such as western blotting and chromatin immunoprecipitation, alongside bioinformatics tools like transcriptomics and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, to understand the molecular mechanisms of disease causation.

Research Interests