Eliot Forster

Dr. Eliot Forster has served as F-star’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since joining F-star in 2018. Dr. Forster has three decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, having co-founded and led several companies. He has raised more than $500M in equity financing. He is non-executive Chairman of Avacta plc and non-executive Director of Immatics NV (NASDAQ IMTX). He has previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Immunocore Ltd (NASDAQ IMCR), Creabilis Therapeutics, and Solace PharmaceuticalsInc. and was also Head of Development and Operations for the EU and Asia at Pfizer.

He was the founding Chairman of MedCity and is Chairman of Liverpool Health Partners. He is an honorary visiting Professor of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine at theUniversity of Liverpool and an honorary international visiting Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also a Board member of the UK Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research and the UK National Genomics Board. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool and an MBA from Henley Management College.