Prof. Saleh Abu-Lafi is specialized in the separation and identification of new active ingredients from natural products. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 1987. In 1994, he received his doctorate from the School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and spent three years as a visiting associate at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until 1997. His research interests are in the separation and identification of new active ingredients from medicinal plant materials using advanced instruments such as LCMS, LC-MSMS, NMR, HPLC-PDA, and HS-SPME-GCMS. He is also interested in the development of new methods related to the separation and analysis of medicines according to FDA and ICH norms. Another field of interest is the chiral and preparative (scaling up) separation of drugs.
