Dr. Shahidul Islam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Delaware State University, with extensive teaching experience in general chemistry, biochemistry, and computational chemistry. His research focuses on understanding biological macromolecules particularly proteins—and their interactions with small molecules, peptides, and other proteins for biotechnological applications. He integrates state-of-the-art computational approaches with in vitro experiments to address challenges in infectious diseases, cancer, food allergens, and genetic disorders.

Dr. Islam has published over fifty articles in leading journals, including Nature, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and American Chemical Society journals, and has secured funding from agencies such as National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and United States Department of Agriculture.

He previously served as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (2016–2022) and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (2011–2015). He earned his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2022 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2008.