Dr. Mangal earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering with a concentration in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He also served as a student researcher for two years in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Baltimore-based higher education facility. After graduation, he was named a Post-Bac IRTA Fellow at the National Institutes of Health where he developed 3D gene expression profiling of the mammalian cardiovascular system. He returned to the Bethesda-based facility the next year as a summer medical intern.