Dr Sumangali Wijetunge
- Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Admissions Tutor Pharmacology
About
I graduated with an honours degree in Pharmacology from University College London. Following this, I joined Imperial College London as a research assistant. I undertook my PhD at Imperial College London where my doctoral research was on regulation of vascular calcium channels by tyrosine kinases. I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then as a Research lecturer at Imperial College for over 20 years.
I joined Kingston University in December 2014. I teach Pharmacology and Physiology in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I am also the module leader for the core Pharmacology module in Level 5 – Systems Pharmacology (LS5010) module. My research interests are in the areas of lifestyle factors that affect cardiovascular disease and pedagogical research into what factors affect student performance at university.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Pharmacology. University College London.
- PhD (Pharmacology). Imperial College London. 1998
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2017