Ashani Tanuja Weeraratna (born 1970 or 1971)[1][2] is a Sri Lanka-born American cancer researcher whose findings are contributing to the scientific understanding of melanoma tumors.
McCollum Professor and Chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
[2] In 1988, due to apartheid,[2] Weeraratna left Southern Africa at the age of 17 to study biology at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
She earned a doctorate in molecular and cellular oncology from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of the George Washington University Medical Center.
[10] In receiving the professorship, Wistar Institute president and CEO, Dario Altieri remarked that "Dr. Weeraratna has demonstrated outstanding scientific initiative and is a great ambassador for our Institute...she is changing the way we understand melanoma, as she and her team seek ways to prevent and treat this dangerous disease.
McCollum Professor and Chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH).
Weeraratna holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine department of oncology and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.