Dr. C K Bodinayake, Dr. Ajith Nagahawatte, Dr. Vasantha Devasiri and Dr. W Kodikara Arachchi have been awarded Presidential Awards for Scientific Publications for the Years 2011 and 2012 (“Unsuspected Rickettsioses among Patients with Acute Febrile lllness in Sri Lanka 2007”, “Leptospirosis as Frequent Cause of Acute Febrile lllness in Southern Sri Lanka” and “Unsuspected Dengue and Acute Febrile lllness in Rural and Semi Urban Southern in Sri Lanka”).