Rakindu wins his 3rd silver medal in Nepal
Rakindu Randiv Wickramarathna, a grade 10 student from Nalanda College, won the Silver medal at the 6th Asia Pacific Young Scientist [ APCYS] Conference held in Kathmandu, Nepal from November 1-5. The conference was hosted by the Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology [ Recast], Taibhuvan University . The conference was organized by Nepal Polymer Institute [NPL] and Brainycube Research Organization in Nepal.
Rakindu won this medal for the Research title ‘In Vitro Anti - pooliferative effects’ of the Nalanda orientalis fouit on endometrial earcinoma [AN3CA] cells ’. This is the first time a Sri Lankan student participated at this conference and won a medal at the APCYS. This year’s conference was held under the motto ‘ Young scientist - Our strength, our Hope’.
The conference attracted the participation of nearly 200 young scientists who presented their research publications . There were participants from Russia , China , Slovenia , India , Malayasia , Indoonisia , Thailand , Philippines , Sri Lanka and Nepal.
‘BAKINI ‘ is the name we normally use for the Nanelea orientails, fruit . Rakindu tried to figure out if there is any anti - cancer effect in this fruit .
Dr. Sameera R. Samarakoon at the institute of Moleculer Biology, Bio technology and Biochemistry supervised his research. Scientist Ms Nuwanka Abeysinghe and scientist Kalum Rathnayake offered help for this finding
Earlier, Rakindu won a silver medal at the 24th International conference of young Scientist [PCYS] in Stuttgart Germany. That was the first time int he history of PCYS that a Sri Lankan students won a medal .
Last July he won another silver medal at the 1st International RMC young Scientist Conference held in Malayasia. Two students from Nalanda College won medals at the same competition.
With this silver medal Rakindu has gathered 3 silver medals for mother Lanka within one calender year.
Rakindu offers his greatest gratitude to D.R.Sameera R Samarakoon, Ms. Nuwanka Abeysingha and Mr. Kalum Rathnayake for their guidance given. He also thanks Mrs. Renuka Jayasumdora for providing him with the air tickets. He also thanked Mr. Tilak Wattuhewa, Principal of Nalanda College and Ms. Pramitha Galapatththi .
His gratitude also goes to his class teacher Mrs Upeksha Abeysekara, teacher -in-charge of research, the prefect guild of Nalanda College and at last but not least his parents.