Prof Vihandha Wickramasinghe

BBiomed(Hons) PhD
WEHI

Prof Vihandha Wickramasinghe was awarded a prestigious Melbourne National Scholarship to undertake his undergraduate and honours degrees in Biomedical Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Following this, he was awarded a Medical Research Council pre-doctoral fellowship to undertake his PhD studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom under Prof Ron Laskey and undertook further postdoctoral work with Prof Laskey and Professor Ashok Venkitaraman (2003-2016).  

He was recruited to Australia on a veski Innovation Fellowship in 2016 to start his laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. His laboratory moved to WEHI in November 2024, and he is the inaugural Moderna Australia Fellow.

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