He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and also functions as the Deputy Director of the International Research Center at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He received his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) and MPhil (Master of Philosophy) degrees from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and the Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA in 2011. He later completed a postdoc in immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.