Dr. Keppetipola is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the California State University at Fullerton. Her B.S degree is in chemistry from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She received her PhD in Chemical Biology from the Tri-Instituitional Chemical Biology Program (Cornell -Memorial Sloan Kettering and Rockefeller) working with Dr. Stewart Shuman. Prior to coming to CSUF, she was an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Douglas Black's lab at UCLA.