Dr. Navnath Hatvate holds a Master of Pharmacy and a PhD from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor at ICT Mumbai, Marathwada Campus. His areas of expertise and research interests include the development of new chemical entities (NCEs) and their analogues, modifications of excipients and their applications in drug delivery, the use of AI and ML in drug discovery and drug delivery, process chemistry of APIs and intermediates, and total synthesis of natural products and bio-active compounds.