Khalid K. Alam

Khalid K. Alam is the founder and CEO of Stemloop. Prior to this, they worked as an ORISE Fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering from June 2019 to June 2022. Khalid also worked as a Visiting Research Collaborator at Northwestern University from August 2016 to June 2022. From June 2009 to May 2016, they worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where they developed and published the first easy-to-use and open-source bioinformatic toolkit for the analysis of high-throughput DNA sequencing data from combinatorial selections ("FASTAptamer"). Khalid also coupled their work in bioinformatics with directed evolution (i.e., aptamer selections) to accelerate the identification and characterization of RNA broad-spectrum and base-modified inhibitors of HIV-1, and to perform deep mutational scanning of a viral glycoprotein. As a Ph.D. student, they also developed the first genetically-encoded visualization tool ("Split-Broccoli") for monitoring RNA-RNA hybridization in living cells, and applied these tools to study the targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics to cancer cell lines.

Khalid K. Alam has a business degree from Kellogg Executive Education, a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a graduate certificate in life science innovation and entrepreneurship from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, and a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and biotechnology from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis.

Julius Lucks - Scientific Co-Founder, Mike Jewett - Scientific Co-Founder report to Khalid K. Alam.