Visiting researcher
Prof. Soliman Khatib an organic, medicinal and analytical chemist, completed his Ph.D. at the faculty of chemistry at the Technion-Israel institute of technology. Now, he is an associate professor, head of the Laboratory of Natural Compounds and Analytical Chemistry at Migal-galilee research institute and scientific director of the analytical chemistry laboratory in Tel-Hai college. Prof. Khatib's research focuses on the extraction, isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive compounds from micro/macro-algae, plants and mushrooms for the prevention and treatment of diseases like, atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases. His group works on the analyses of endogenous molecules, and metabolomics in serum saliva, urine, and feces as early biomarkers for human diseases such as, cardiac disease. He uses plant metabolomics to assess the effect of stress on plant metabolites profile.
Prof. Kathib now has more than 70 peer reviewed publications .
Embedded in the Bioinformatics Group of the Plant Sciences Group at WUR 