Chirag Raval
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Science
EMAIL: craval@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-687
Office Hours: Monday 11-1pm N687. Appointments via email receive first priority.
Phone: +1 (212) 245-8618
Dr. Raval serves as a community developer, life scientist and public health advocate in Manhattan.
C.B. has extensive training in tissue engineering and membrane transport as both a chemical and biomedical engineer and utilizes an interdisciplinary mindset to establish solutions across public health and medicine.
Expertise
human longevity, tissue transport, public health, toxicity
Advisor for BMCC Premed Club: https://sites.google.com/view/pre-med-bmcc
Degrees
- Ph.D, Biomedical Engineering, The Graduate Center CUNY
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering, City College CUNY
- B.ChE, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
Courses Taught
- This two-semester course explores the human body as an integrated, functional complex of systems. Terminology, structure and function of each organ-system, with emphasis on their interrelationships, are explained. Required of students in the health services technologies; available to all other students for elective credit.
Prerequisite for BIO 426 is BIO 425. Two terms required. Prerequisite: CHE 118 or CHE 121, or departmental approval NOTE: BIO 425 and BIO 426 do not meet the science requirements in the liberal arts curriculum.
Course Syllabus - This two-semester course acquaints students with the basic properties of living systems: metabolism, growth, responsiveness and reproduction at the cellular and organism levels as illustrated by assorted plants and animals. Two terms required.
Course Syllabus - This two-semester course acquaints students with the basic properties of living systems: metabolism, growth, responsiveness and reproduction at the cellular and organism levels as illustrated by assorted plants and animals. Two terms required.
Corequisite for BIO 210 is ENG 101 and any 100-level math course or higher, excluding MAT 150.5 and MAT 161.5
Prerequisite for BIO 220 is BIO 210 and any 100-level math course or higher, excluding MAT 150.5 and MAT 161.5
Course Syllabus - Introduction to the structure and function of the human body with emphasis on both the physiological mechanisms in health and disease, as well as concepts and current issues in human biology. Topics include: the molecules of life, cells, tissues, and organ system homeostasis; the skeleton, muscles, the heart, blood, skin, the sensory mechanisms of the eye, ear, taste, touch, and perception; nervous, endocrine, respiratory systems, the brain, genetics, and immune system, infectious diseases, cancer and nutrition.
Course Syllabus - Basic cellular structure, tissue organization, physiological process, reproduction, and genetics are studied. Special attention is given to selected zoological specimens with particular emphasis upon man.
Course Syllabus
Research and Projects
endothelial healing and early inflammation
Publications
(* co-first author)
- Raval, C.B., Quarfordt, S., Toussaint, J., Cancel, L., Gan, S., Jan., K.M., Tarbell, J.M., Rumschitzki, D.S. “Forskolin upregulates aquaporin-1 expression and function in quiescent endothelium in intact aorta and confluent endothelial cells.” (in review)
- Toussaint, J. *, Raval, C.B.*, Nguyen, T, Quarfordt, S., Fadaifard, H., Wolberg, G., Jan, K.M. and Rumschitzki, D.S. “Chronic hypertension increases aortic endothelial hydraulic conductivity by upregulating endothelial aquaporin-1 expression.” AJP: Heart and Circ. 2017. AJP: Heart and Circ. 2017. 313(5): p. H1063-73.
- Nguyen, T.*, Toussaint, J.D.*, Xue, Y.*, Raval, C.B., Russell, S., Shou, Y., Sedes, O., Sun, Y., Cancel, L., Tarbell, J.M., Jan, K.M., & Rumschitzki, D.S. “Aquaporin-1 facilitates pressure driven water flow across the aortic endothelium.” AJP: Heart and Circ. 2015. 308(9): p. H1051-64.
- Raval, C. B., Increasing aortic endothelial cell aquaporin-1 expression upregulates endothelial hydraulic conductivity in monolayers and in whole vessels ex vivo. Dissertation, City University of New York: ProQuest/UMI, 2012. (Publication No. AAT 3541731.)
- Raval, C.B., “A Tea Party with Snacks – The Libertarian Obstacle to Sound Public Health Policy.” Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The Blog. April 2011. (editorial)
- Raval, C. B., Tarbell, J. M., & Rumschitzki, D. S. (2010, March). Arginine vasopressin increases aquaporin-1 expression and hydraulic conductivity in bovine aortic endothelial cell monolayers. In Bioengineering Conference, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 36th Annual Northeast (pp. 1-2). IEEE.
- Raval, C.B., Food Policy in New York State: Hearings before the Senate Standing Committee on Health. New York: NYSPHA, Jan. 25, 2010. (Testimony)
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- Graduate Center CUNY Alumni Awards Committee Member 2016-Present
- Professional Staff Congress CUNY Research Award 2015
- Keynote Speaker, Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership Orientation 2012
- The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Fellowship 2009–2010
- NIH Graduate Student Mentor 2008–2010
- NSF Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) 2007–2010
- Classified Security Clearance from Department of Defense 2006
- Delaware Governor’s Scholar Award 2001-2005
