Pratik S Mahajan earned his M.Sc in Biotechnology from North Maharashtra University in Jalgaon in 2017 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Biotechnology. He worked as a Project Fellow at North Maharashtra University in Jalgaon from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, he joined the National Institute of Translational Virology and AIDS Research in Pune as a JRF and was promoted to SRF in 2023. His research focuses on drug discovery, mycobacteriology, structural biology, and molecular biology.