Neeta Vora, MD, Professor of Ob/Gyn and Director of Reproductive Genetics at UNC-CH

12 Mar 2026
Prenatal Genetics

Dr. Vora is triple-boarded in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Clinical Genetics.  She completed her residency and fellowship at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA and moved to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012.  She is now Professor of Ob/Gyn and Director of Reproductive Genetics at UNC-CH.  Dr. Vora has an R01 from NICHD to study novel genes critical to human brain development with functional modeling in a zebrafish model.  She has been a co-investigator on a multicenter prenatal whole genome sequencing grant and co-investigator on a grant regarding how patients prepare for a prenatal diagnosis of a genetic condition.

She has authored more than 100 articles on prenatal genetics, ranging from cell free DNA to whole exome and genome sequencing.