Congratulations to Prof. L G Tillekeratne, Prof. C K Bodinayake, Prof. A Nagahawatte, Prof. V Devasiri, Dr. R Kurukulasooriya for receiving the NRC Merit Award for "Previously derived host gene expression classifiers identify bacterial and viral etiologies of acute febrile respiratory illness in a south asian population" which was published in the Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020.