Herana Kamal Seneviratne
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
https://lifesciences.umaryland.edu/
Additional Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bibliography: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-7060 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/herana.seneviratne.1/bibliography/public/
Education
Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2017
B.S., University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2011
Major Honors and Awards
2026 Invited Speaker, VIII International Retinoids Conference (FASEB SRC), Niagara Falls, New York (scheduled)
2026 Invited Speaker, School of Pharmacy Seminar Series, Virginia Commonwealth University (scheduled)
2026 Invited Speaker, Center for Urban Health Disparities Research and Innovation Seminar Series (scheduled)
2026 Chair, Deciphering Drug Metabolism, Disposition, and Response using Novel High-Resolution and Cellular Approaches Session, MDO 2026 Meeting, Hong Kong (scheduled)
2026 Speaker, Deciphering Drug Metabolism, Disposition, and Response using Novel High-Resolution and Cellular Approaches Session, MDO 2026 Meeting, Hong Kong (scheduled)
2026 Invited Speaker, Spatial Biology Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park
2025 Reviewer, ASPET Symposium Proposals
2025 Reviewer, ASBMB Abstracts
2025 Reviewer, ASBMB Symposium/Workshop Proposals
2025 Invited Speaker, Departmental Seminar Series, Biological Sciences, UMBC
2025 Councilor, Drug Metabolism and Drug Disposition Division Executive Committee, ASPET
2025 Invited Speaker, 24th International Conference of Cytochrome P450, Bern, Switzerland
2025 Chair, Novel Technologies and Approaches to Understand Drug Response Session, ASPET 2025
2025 Speaker, Novel Technologies and Approaches to Understand Drug Response Session, ASPET 2025
2025 Invited Reviewer, START Grant Proposals, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2025 Invited Member, 2025 Waters Imaging Summit, Milford, MA
2025 Invited Speaker, HTXnext Webinar Series
2025 Invited Speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2025 National Science Foundation Reviewer
2024 Invited Speaker, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, East Stroudsburg University
2024 Invited Speaker, RESCON 2024, Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya
2024 Invited Speaker, Department of Chemistry Seminar Series, Towson University
2024 Invited Speaker, Department of Biochemistry Seminar Series, State University of New York
2024 Invited Speaker, Pfizer Biotransformation – Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Metabolism
2024 Editorial Board Member, Drug Metabolism and Disposition
2024 Reviewer, National Institute of Health, Drug and Biologic Disposition and Toxicity Study Section
2024 Invited Speaker, Johns Hopkins Mass Spectrometry Symposium
2024 Journal of Mass Spectrometry Early Career Featured Researcher
2024 Invited Speaker, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology Seminar Series
2024 National Science Foundation Reviewer
2023 Invited Speaker, 5th Lingnan International DMPK Forum, Guangzhou, China
2023 Invited Speaker, Southern Medical University, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
2023 Drug Metabolism and Drug Disposition Featured Researcher, ASPET
2023 Gordon Research Conference Travel Grant
2023 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Mass Spectrometry
2023 Summer Research Faculty Fellowship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2023 Cohort Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology IMAGE Program
2023 National Science Foundation Reviewer
2023 Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Seminar, Gordon Research Conference, Drug Metabolism
2022 Invited Speaker, INSPIRE Seminar Series, Department of Chemistry, University of Peradeniya
2022 Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology Session, Imaging Mass Spectrometry Society Meeting
2021 Invited Speaker, 24th North American ISSX Meeting
2021 Young Scientist Registration Award, ASPET
2021 Finalist, ASPET Best Poster Competition
2020 ASPET Young Scientist Travel Award (selected to receive the award)
2020 Finalist, ASPET Poster Competition (finalists were selected based on the abstracts)
2019 Nominee, Michel Mirowski Discovery Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2019 Speaker at Drug Metabolism and Disposition Gillette Awards and Junior Investigator Platform
2019 Postdoctoral Award in the Best Abstract Competition, ASPET
2018 Postdoctoral Award in the Best Abstract Competition, ASPET
2018 ASPET Postdoctoral Scientist/Young Scientist Travel Award
2018 ASPET at Experimental Biology 2018 Speaker Travel Support
2017 Clinical Pharmacology Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2016/2017 Prof. J. Ivan Legg Fellowship in Chemistry for Outstanding Performance
2016/2017 Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Scholarship
2016 Graduate Chemical Society Travel Grant
2016 GPSA Travel Grant, Washington State University
2016 GPSA Registration Grant, Washington State University
2016 Frank and Mary Loewus Student Travel Award, Phytochemical Society of North America
2016 Finalist, Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship, Washington State University
2015 Chemistry Department Registration Grant, Washington State University
2015 Stanford Bio-X Travel Grant
2015 Phi Lambda Upsilon Travel Grant
2015 Institute of Biological Chemistry Travel Grant to attend RapiData 2015 workshop
2013/2014 Prof. T.J. Chow Endowed Fellowship in Chemistry, Washington State University
2004 Australian National Chemistry Quiz Competition High Distinction Award