Malik Peiris
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1949 –
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Who is Malik Peiris?
Joseph Malik Sriyal Peiris, FRS, Légion d'Honneur was born in Sri Lanka, a distinguished old boy of St. Anthony's College, Kandy and later studied medicine at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. This was followed by the award of a PhD at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, U.K., where he made significant discoveries on the mechanism of dengue virus pathogenesis. After further work in the U.K. and Sri Lanka, he founded a virology laboratory at Queen Mary Hospital, in 1995.
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- Born
- Nov 10, 1949
Sri Lanka - Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- University of Ceylon
- Keble College, Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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