Hanmant Gaikwad received a Master degree (M.Sc.) in Organic Chemistry from the Shivaji University, Kolhapur in 2005. He completed his PhD in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India in 2013. Later, in 2013, he joined as a Post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Galia Blum's research group at School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He worked on molecular imaging of cancer using X‑ray computed tomography with protease targeted iodinated activity-based probes. Then he joined the Simberg Lab as a Visiting Research Associate in December 2017. His research work focuses on development of new class of small molecules, nanoparticle conjugates, lipid conjugates and antibody conjugates with cleavable linkers for targeted drug delivery and molecular imaging.