Dr Faisal F. Khan is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he successfully completed his doctoral studies at the intersection of Cell Biology and Systems Biology as a member of the Oxford Protein Informatics Group. During the course of his DPhil, Faisal was also a SIP scholar at the Saïd Business School where he read Strategy and Innovation. Faisal also has an MSc in Integrative Bioscience from the University of Oxford with two dissertations in Cell Biology and Structural Bioinformatics, and a BS in Biotechnology from the University of Peshawar.

Throughout his career Faisal has won numerous awards and scholarships including the HEC overseas scholarship, the Oxford-Noon Award and the St. Anne’s College Domus Award. As an entrepreneur, Faisal was selected amongst Europe’s 40 Biotech Leaders of the Future by Novartis in 2009 and his startup won his team the CUE Grand Finale, the largest business plan competition at the University of Cambridge, in 2011.

Faisal currently leads Peshawar 2.0, Basecamp Peshawar and the Institute of Integrative Biosciences, Peshawar.