Sailajah Gukathasan

Sailajah is currently working on the niche of developing gold-based reagents for specific protein modulation under the guidance of Dr. Samuel Awuah at Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky. She is originally from the idyllic city of Jaffna in Sri Lanka and graduated Honors with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Zoology. She left her position as a government official in Sri Lanka to realize her true passion of contributing towards the society through science, better achieved by devoting her time to research and completing graduate school. Taking her first step towards her goal, she moved to the US in 2015 for a Masters' degree from Tennessee Technological University. After graduating successfully in 2017, she joined Awuah's lab as a doctoral student.