Dr. Faisal Khan is a distinguished biologist, technology innovator and policy entrepreneur who leads the federally-funded Precision Medicine Lab in Peshawar - an interdisciplinary and translational biology research Lab - that started in 2013. His Lab develops and uses tools in systems and synthetic biology for various applications in medicine, environment and the industry. Dr Khan graduated with a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford (UK). More recently, he completed a one-year training in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics at Harvard Medical School and is also an alumnus of the NASA’s STAR-2 programme. In 2019, he was nominated as a Young Global Leader from Pakistan by the World Economic Forum. In 2021, he was appointed as Advisor to the Minister for Science and Technology and IT, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where he designed and developed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Science Agenda launched in 2021.
WISIR, Senior Fellow