Khalid K. Alam, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Stemloop – an early-stage company addressing large-scale unmet chemical testing needs with easy-to-use, inexpensive, and rapid “cell-free biosensor” technology. Under his leadership, Stemloop has raised $4M in dilutive and non-dilutive funding, established a state-of-the-art synthetic biology laboratory and team in Evanston, Illinois, and has partnered with government and industry to solve critical chemical sensing and detection challenges in biomanufacturing and beyond. 

Khalid is a biotechnologist and builder. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri and trained as Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology, where he developed Stemloop’s technology platform in the labs of his cofounders – Professors Julius Lucks and Michael Jewett. Khalid was awarded an ORISE Entrepreneurial Fellowship as a Cohort 3 Innovator at the Chain Reaction Innovations program at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also a cofounder of ChiTownBio – a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to putting the knowledge, skills, and tools of biotechnology into the hands of all Chicagoans who want to explore the living world and use it to benefit our communities.