Seminar on “Genes, Immunity & COVID-19 Vaccines”
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The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan, China, has claimed countless lives within a span of two years causing significant damage to the world’s population and the global economy.
Within the passage of a year, the emergence of changing COVID-19 variants with higher transmissibility, increased fatality was discovered around the globe.
Currently, Sri Lanka is fighting the third wave of coronavirus and there has been an increase in number of cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant of coronavirus across the country.
With the current situation need and importance of vaccination has become a vital tool in the battle against corona virus. Vaccines save millions of lives each year and the development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines is a huge step taken forward in the effort to end the pandemic. Misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines provided by different information channels have led to hesitancies in accepting the COVID-19 vaccine among the population.
This seminar will provide information on COVID-19 vaccines currently available and will be an immense help to clear off any doubt with regards to COVID-19 vaccines. With the intension of disseminating awareness on the widely spread COVID-19 and the importance of vaccination a webinar on “Genes, Immunity and COVID-19 Vaccines” will be conducted by the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon via Zoom. The event will be held on 4th September 2021 from 8.30 am to 12.00 noon. The program hopes to cover topics such as “Genomics of COVID-19” by Dr. Sameera. R. Samarakoon. “COVID-19 and Nutrition” by Prof. Ranil Jayawardena, “Immune response in COVID- 19: friend or foe” by Dr. Narmada Fernando, “COVID-19 Vaccine: What is Best” by Prof. ChandimaJeewandra and “Concluding Remarks and a Q&A session” by Prof. NimalPunyasiri. The seminar will be moderated by Prof. ChayanikaPadumadasa.
You can register to this webinar by vising the IchemC website (ichemc.edu.lk) while more information can be obtained by contacting the Institute at 011-2861231. Also you may obtain information by sending an email to covidseminar21@gmail.com
For more details, please contact
Ms. Nishadi (077 730 6270) / Ms. Shanali (076 553 2142)
Shanali De Silva
Organizing committee,
Institute of Chemistry Ceylon.