Priya Werahera

Dr. Werahera area of research is the biomedical and biotechnology areas of natural history and mechanisms of carcinogenesis. He earned his B.S. from the University of Moratuwa, his M.S. from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University. Dr. Werahera also holds an advisory position with the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado. His research applies engineering to medical research spanning such areas as guided needle biopsy protocols; optical spectroscopy for disease diagnosis, computer architecture and parallel processing, embedded computing systems and simulations and statistical modeling.