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Prof. E. Dilip de Silva
Senior Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chair in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Natural Products Reserch Group 2015-2016
We have a group of talented and motivated researchers including doctoral students, masters students and undergraduates.
Endophytic Fungi
Endophytic Fungi lives within a plant for at least part of its life. They are capable of producing medicinaly importnat secondary metabolites.
Marine Algae
Sri Lanka being a tropical country provide habitats to a large number of marine algae. Secondary metabolites isolated from marine algae have shown a high level of pharmacological potential.
Bio-assays
In bio-assay guided fractionation bio-assays are conducted against clinically important bacteria and fungi in each step of purification of extracts.
