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Prof. Nabil Kochaji

Prof. Dr. Nabil Kochaji is an internationally recognized authority in oral pathology, with more than twenty five years of academic, clinical, and publishing excellence. He is the innovator of the Kochaji AI Digital Microscope, a pioneering project integrating artificial intelligence into digital pathology to advance diagnostic precision and global collaboration. He earned his DDS from Damascus University, followed by a Master’s in Medical and Pharmaceutical Research and a PhD in Oral Pathology from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

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Mobile phone: 00963994200500

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Address: Damascus _Syria

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• PhD in Dentistry (Oral Pathology), Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium, 1999–2005

 • MSc in Medical & Pharmaceutical Research, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium, 2000–2002 

• DDS, Damascus University, Syria, 1992–1997

• 2025–Present: Director General, Higher Commission for Scientific Research (Ministerial Rank), Syria 

• 2024–Present: Member, Trusty Board, Yarmouk University, Syria 

• 2023–Present: Member, WHO Artificial Intelligence Group for Oral Pathology, Geneva

 • 2022–Present: President, Syrian Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology 

• 2019 Present: President, Syrian Society of Oral Pathology 

• 2017–Present: Full Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University

 • 2016–2019: Founding Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, Al Sham Private University 

• 2010–2016: Head, Department of Oral Histology & Pathology, Damascus University

 • 2006–Present: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Oral Pathology, Damascus University 

• 2006–Present: Founder & Director, First Private Oral Pathology Diagnostic Service in the Middle East 

• 2009–2019: Part Time Professor, Histology, Pathology & Forensic Dentistry, Al Kalamoun University 

• 2007–2009: Part Time Professor, Histology & Pathology, IUST University 

• 2006–2007: Visiting Professor, Hama University 

• 1999–2005: Researcher in Oral Pathology & Histology, VUB, Brussels

 • 1997–1999: General Dentist, Private Clinic, Damascus


Supervised over 30 master’s and doctorate dissertations and theses in the dental faculty of Damascus University, in the fields of: oral malignancies, odontogenic cysts and tumours and salivary glands (list of projects is available).

Authorship of Books 

• Clinical Oral Pathology: Kochaji’s Guide to Oral Lesions and Biopsies, Springer Nature, 2024 

• Clinical Oral Pathology: Kochaji’s Guide to Oral Mucosal Lesions, Springer International Publishing, 2025 

• Clinical Oral Pathology – Arabic Edition, ALECSO, 2026 

• Patologia Oral, Amolca, 2025 

• Contemporary Oral Medicine, Springer, 2018 

• Cawson’s Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine (Arabic Bilingual Edition Translator), Elsevier, 2011 

• Additional authored works ( 18 scientific books published in Arabic between 2007 2019) Book Chapters (Selected) 

• Normal Oral Mucosa: Histology and Anatomy — Springer, 2025

 • Biopsy Techniques — Springer, 2025

 • White, Red, Ulcerative, Pigmented, Verrucous, Vesiculobullous Lesions — Springer, 2025

 • Intraosseous Lesions — Springer Nature, 2024

 • Normal Variation in Maxillofacial Anatomy — Springer, 2019

 Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals (Full detailed list provided in the Research Portfolio — all publications included without deletion or conferences.)