Affiliation: University of Arizona

Dr. Goyal is an Associate Professor of Physiology in the School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Dr. Goyal received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Mississippi and MD from Armed Forces Medical College, India. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Loma Linda University. Dr. Goyal is researching on developmental origin of health and disease with emphasis on fetal programming of metabolic syndrome, cancer, and neurological impairments.  His research program uses a vertically integrated approach utilizing cell culture – tissue culture – small animal (mouse) models – and large animals (sheep) to investigate fetal epigenetic programming of cerebral vascular development in response to maternal stressors such as hypoxia, hyperthermia, and malnutrition.