SACTRC is a research collaboration which is based in and administered from Sri Lanka but has active collaborators from many other countries.

Its primary purpose is to conduct and promote research in Clinical Toxicology with a particular emphasis on sustainable capacity building in the developing world.

SACTRC provides infrastructure and intellectual support to a number of research projects related to acute poisoning. It has an active program of support and training for postgraduate students.

SACTRC is predominately funded by competitive research grants. The major source of funding is from the Wellcome Trust and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia International Collaborative Research Grant (GR071669MA). Additional resources were funded by the Wellcome Trust Grant (GR063560MA). Details of funding for specific projects are included in the description of the project.