Tucson, Arizona
Vice Chair of Research and Tenured Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson — a NIH-funded physician-scientist building the science behind safer pregnancies and translating discoveries into clinical practice.
About
Ravi Goyal serves as Vice Chair of Research and Tenured Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He leads the department's research portfolio across clinical and basic-science programs, mentors junior faculty and graduate trainees, and builds the infrastructure that makes translational women's-health science possible at one of the Southwest's largest academic medical centers.
His own laboratory studies how exposures during fetal and early-postnatal life — hypoxia, undernutrition, environmental stressors — reprogram the maternal and offspring cardiovascular system and predispose to disease decades later. The lab combines molecular epigenetics, vascular physiology, and computational modeling to identify mechanisms that can be modified before symptoms appear.
Dr. Goyal is a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), a NIH-funded Principal Investigator with more than $14 million in direct grant awards, and an active peer reviewer for the NIH, the American Heart Association, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and over 30 international journals. He holds the MD, PhD, and MBA degrees, an unusual combination that informs how he bridges discovery science, clinical translation, and the commercial pathways that bring innovations to patients.
Outside the university, he is founder and CEO of Epigenuity® LLC — a Tucson-based translational venture advancing devices and software for maternal-fetal medicine and women's health.
Funded research
Active and recent extramural awards on which Dr. Goyal serves as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator, conducted at the University of Arizona.
NIH NICHD R01 examining how prenatal environmental exposures alter the maternal vasculature and contribute to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in subsequent gestations. Award: ~$1.92M direct.
NIH NICHD R03 small-grant award supporting mechanistic studies on how DNA-methylation patterns lay down in utero shape vascular reactivity across the life course.
NIH NIDDK collaborative project on how early-life metabolic environment shapes renal structure and function — Co-Investigator role contributing physiology and epigenetics expertise.
NIH OD-funded multi-investigator initiative; Dr. Goyal contributes developmental and vascular expertise as Co-Investigator.
Additional applications under review at NIH and Department of Defense. For the complete bibliography, see Publications.
At the University of Arizona
University of Arizona College of Medicine — Tucson
Leads the research mission of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — strategy, faculty development, infrastructure, and grant portfolio across clinical and basic-science programs.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Independent investigator running an extramurally funded laboratory; mentor to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and junior faculty.
University of Arizona
UA's flagship interdisciplinary biosciences institute connecting agriculture, medicine, science, engineering, and pharmacy to address grand challenges in human and environmental health.
Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center
NIEHS-funded P30 center studying how environmental exposures of the desert Southwest — heat, dust, arsenic, pesticides — shape disease risk across the life course.
Dr. Goyal has mentored graduate students, undergraduate researchers, medical students, OB/GYN residents, and postdoctoral fellows. He serves on dissertation committees in Physiological Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Clinical Translational Sciences at the University of Arizona, and was previously Director of Graduate Studies in his program — a role that shaped his commitment to building the next generation of physician-scientists in the Southwest.
Translational ventures
Tucson-based companies and products spun out of Dr. Goyal's research program.
Maternal-fetal and women's health innovation platform — devices and software pipeline.
epigenuity.com →Biofeedback-enabled pessary for pelvic organ prolapse. Wholly-owned subsidiary of Epigenuity, spun out of the University of Arizona.
smartpessary.com →Digital-twin platform for endometriosis — personalized modeling of disease progression and treatment response.
endotwin-w.com →Free decision-support calculator for postpartum hemorrhage risk — CMQCC, AWHONN, ACOG protocols.
pphrisk.com →Publications
More than 55 peer-reviewed publications since 2007, including a review in Physiological Reviews. Search the full bibliography on PubMed.
Goyal R, Longo LD. Maternal protein deprivation: sexually dimorphic programming of hypertension in the mouse. Hypertens Res.
Goyal R, et al. Antenatal maternal hypoxic stress: adaptations in fetal lung Renin-Angiotensin system. Reprod Sci.
Goyal R, Longo LD. Acclimatization to long-term hypoxia: gene expression in ovine carotid arteries. Physiol Genomics.
Goyal R, et al. Antenatal maternal long-term hypoxia: acclimatization responses with altered gene expression in ovine fetal carotid arteries. PLoS One.
Contact
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