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Education

Medicine, clinical training and an intercalated degree in biochemistry at Cambridge.

Cambridge 2022–2028 MB BChir Medicine University of Cambridge A six-year medical degree combining pre-clinical science, an intercalated Biochemistry degree and the three clinical Final MB years.
Pre-clinical Year 1 — MVST Part IA Core scientific and social foundations of medicine.
  • Anatomy
  • Physiology
  • Biochemistry
  • Social Aspects of Medicine
  • Epidemiology
Pre-clinical Year 2 — MVST Part IB Systems, disease mechanisms and therapeutic foundations.
  • Pathology
  • Pharmacology
  • Neurobiology
  • Human Reproduction
  • Head and Neck Anatomy
Intercalated degree Year 3 — MA (Cantab) (Hons) Biochemistry
  • Dissertation: Class I (73%).
  • BA result: Class II.1.
Clinical medicine Final MB — Years 4–6 The three clinical years of the Cambridge medical course.
  • Year 4: 83% overall, top 15% of the year, Class I.
  • Year 5: current clinical year.
  • Year 6: final clinical year.
School 2018–2022 A Levels and GCSEs Tapton School, Sheffield A quantitative science foundation before studying medicine at Cambridge.
  • A Levels: Mathematics (A*), Chemistry (A*) and Biology (A*).
  • GCSEs: nine Grade 9s, one Grade 8 and two Grade 7s.
MathematicsChemistryBiology

Professional experience

Teaching, biomedical research, healthcare consulting and medical education.

Teaching Oct 2025–Present Part II Biochemistry Supervisor Robinson College, University of Cambridge Paid small-group teaching and assessment for Part II Biochemistry undergraduates.
  • Supervise Part II Biochemistry students across Natural Sciences and Medical and Veterinary Sciences.
  • Deliver small-group teaching sessions and mark essays.
TeachingBiochemistryAcademic feedback
Consulting Aug–Sept 2025 Life Sciences Summer Analyst Intern Candesic Commercial due diligence and strategic analysis across healthcare services and medtech.
  • Contributed to commercial due-diligence projects for private-equity clients evaluating healthcare service providers and medtech innovations.
  • Performed market analysis, competitor benchmarking and financial modelling to support investment decisions.
Due diligenceMarket analysisFinancial modelling
Research July–Sept 2025 Summer Intern Milner Therapeutics Institute / AstraZeneca Exploratory inflammatory-bowel-disease drug-target research using transcriptomic analysis.
  • Applied differential gene-expression analysis in R and Python across bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing data.
  • Supported exploratory work investigating disease-specific cellular interaction signatures for targeted drug discovery.
RPythonSingle-cell RNA-seqDrug discovery
Cardiovascular research Jun–Aug 2024 Wellcome Trust Summer Intern Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Sheffield Computational and experimental work on ticagrelor reversal during emergency CABG.
  • Built computational models simulating CytoSorb bead-incubation dynamics to optimise ticagrelor reversal.
  • Designed and ran in-vitro assays including light-transmission aggregometry, VerifyNow, whole-blood single-platelet counting and flow cytometry.
  • Refined incubation protocols by modelling drug–receptor dissociation kinetics to inform clinical strategy.
  • Co-authored a peer-reviewed review on coronary thrombosis interventions as second author.
Cardiovascular researchComputational modellingFlow cytometryPlatelet function
Medical education 2022–Present Founder and CEO VW Schools Founded a medical-education consultancy for aspiring medical students.
  • Supported more than 300 aspiring medical students with structured application and interview preparation.
  • Designed proprietary resources and managed operations.
  • Achieved a 100% medical-school placement rate through structured systems, performance tracking and outcome-focused delivery.
  • Built and deployed Vantage, an AI study coach using Python for personalised question generation, marking, progress tracking and spaced repetition.
Medical-school applicationsMedical educationOperationsPython
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Leadership and extracurriculars

Leadership across medtech, university societies and high-performance sport.

Medtech 2026–Present Vice President Cambridge University MedTech Society Vice President of the Cambridge University MedTech Society.
MedtechLeadershipCambridge
High-performance sport 2018–Present Badminton England and University of Cambridge International junior representation, university captaincy and sustained competitive performance.
  • England National Team, 2018–2022: European Junior Badminton Championships runner-up and five England caps.
  • Yorkshire Player of the Year in 2022, 2024 and 2025.
  • Cambridge University Captain, 2023–24: led the team to BUCS nationals and varsity victories while managing coaching, training and match transport.
EnglandCaptaincyTeam leadership
Society 2023–Present Treasurer Cambridge University Sri Lanka Society Managed society finances for cultural and educational events.
  • Secured £500 in funding and managed event budgets.
BudgetingCommunity

Technical skills and languages

Coding, laboratory methods, computer science, artificial intelligence and languages.

Technical Data and coding Tools used across academic, research and analytical work.
Rggplot2dplyrnlmePythonSQLExcelSPSSGraphPad PrismLaTeX
Experimental Laboratory techniques Methods used in biomedical laboratory and cardiovascular research settings.
Flow cytometryNMR spectroscopyAggregometryIn-vitro assay development
Developing Computer science and artificial intelligence Completed Harvard CS50x and CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python.
  • CS50x: computer-science foundations, algorithms, data structures, memory, C, Python, SQL and web programming.
  • CS50AI: search, knowledge representation, uncertainty, optimisation, machine learning, neural networks and natural-language processing in Python.
CS50xCS50AICPythonSQLHTMLCSSJavaScriptFlaskGit
About CS50x About CS50AI
Communication Languages English and Sinhala fluent; French intermediate.
English — fluentSinhala — fluentFrench — intermediate

Publications and conferences

Peer-reviewed work and conference presentations.

Publication 2025 Pharmacotherapeutic options for coronary thrombosis treatment: where are we today? Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy Peer-reviewed review article; second author.
Coronary thrombosisPharmacotherapySecond author
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Conference 2025 Pharmacology 2025 Belfast Selected for both an oral communication and a poster presentation.
  • Oral communication: CytoSorb beads for ticagrelor reversal in CABG to reduce excessive bleeding.
  • Poster presentation: Pharmacotherapeutic options for coronary thrombosis treatment: where are we today?
Oral communicationPoster presentationCardiovascular research
Conference 2025 East of England Cardiology Conference Presented cardiovascular research in both oral and poster formats.
  • Oral presentation: CytoSorb beads for ticagrelor reversal in CABG to reduce excessive bleeding.
  • Poster presentation: Pharmacotherapeutic options for coronary thrombosis treatment: where are we today?
Oral presentationPoster presentationCardiology

Awards

Recognition across cardiovascular research and high-performance badminton.

Research award Mar 2025 Award for Best Oral Presentation East of England Cardiology Conference Awarded for the presentation “Investigating the efficacy of CytoSorb beads in reversing the antiplatelet effects of ticagrelor”.
Cardiovascular researchOral presentation
Sport Churchill College Elite Athlete Representation Award University of Cambridge Sport A monetary award supporting elite-level competition.
BadmintonElite sport
Sport Hawks and Ospreys Scholarship Hawks & Ospreys Charitable Trust A monetary award supporting my badminton career and tournament participation.
BadmintonCambridge University Badminton Club
Sport University of Cambridge Athlete Performance Programme (UCAPP) University of Cambridge Sport Support for elite-level national performance in badminton.
BadmintonHigh-performance sport

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