Affiliation: International Atomic Energy Agency, Joint FAO/IAEA, Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna

Dr. Viskam Wijewardana obtained PhD in Veterinary Immunology from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan in 2007 and BVSc from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1999. He was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh on the areas of SIV/HIV immunology 2007-2012. He was a research fellow at Osaka Prefecture University working on dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy 2012-2014. Since 2015, he is working at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna as an Animal Health Officer concentrating on livestock immunology and vaccine development. His current research interests are on development of irradiated vaccines against animal and zoonotic diseases, host-pathogen interactions, and development of assays to measure vaccine immunogenicity.