Ms Wijini Wijayabandara is a lecturer attached to the Department of Biomedical Science, AMRAK Institute of Medical Sciences. She obtained her BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from Northumbria University-UK (First class) , an MSc in molecular Life Science specialized in molecular medicine from Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB)-University of Colombo, SriLanka. During her time as a postgraduate, she worked as a volunteer student demonstrator for plant DNA extraction at IBMBB. She also followed a laboratory training course on Molecular Biology Techniques conducted by the Ceygen Biotech and Durdans Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories.