Dr. Anamika Sharma obtained her M.Sc. in General Chemistry and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at University of Mysore (Mysore, India). She worked in the area of synthetic chemistry as a Research Associate at Syngene International (Bangalore, India). Her Ph.D. work involved classical solution phase peptide synthesis and bioconjugation. Afterwards, she worked as Assistant Professor at Techno India (Kolkata, India). She is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of KwaZulu Natal (Durban, South Africa). Her research includes the investigation of protecting groups for amino acids and Linkers in solid phase peptide synthesis and also broad areas in Medicinal Chemistry.