Dr Kaushala Jayawardana
Bioinformatician
Metabolomics
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Australia
Biography
Kaushala Jayawardana is a postdoctoral bioinformatician in the Metabolomics Laboratory at the Baker Institute. She was awarded a PhD in Statistics from The Sydney University in 2016, where she studied the integration of multiple high-throughput datasets and clinical data. The title of her thesis is Prognostic methods for integrating data from complex diseases. She joined the Baker Institute in June 2016 and has been working on statistical methods for analysing clinical and lipidomic data.
Research Interest
Metabolomics
Publications
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Kaushala Jayawardana,Determination of prognosis in metastatic melanoma through integration of clinico-pathologic, mutation, mRNA microRNA, and protein information International Journal of Cancer 2015 136(4), 863–874.
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Kaushala Jayawardana,Identification, review and systematic cross-validation of microRNA prognostic signatures in metastatic melanoma Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2016 136 (1), 245–254.
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Kaushala Jayawardana,Markers of sympathetic nervous system activity associate with complex plasma lipids in metabolic syndrome subjects Atherosclerosis 2017 256, 21–28.
