Touma Lab

News & Awards

In The News 

Neonatologist Dr. Marlin Touma’s research aims to help tiny, newborn hearts with congenital defects grow into healthy ones that beat to a strong rhythm. (Handout photo/illustration)
  1. The 2024 UCLA B.I.G (Bruin In Genomics) Summer Research Program Outstanding Mentor Award (Marlin Touma).
  2. Awarded Finalist 2021. The North America Section (NAS) of The International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award.

Funding Support

  1. The 2025 Department of Defense Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program - Idea Development Award
  2. NIH/NHLBI R01
  3. The 2019 NIH/NHLBI R56 High Priority "Bridge Fund"
  4. The 2018 American Heart Association Career Development Award
  5. Department of Defense - Biomedical Research Fund
  6. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA - Cardiovascular Theme Research Innovation Award
  7. The Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute - Today’s and Tomorrow Children’s Fund

Highlights

Congratulations to our fellow Zubin Mehta for being nominated to present his outstanding work "Role of Alternative Splicing in Chamber-Specific Maturation of Neonatal Heart During Perinatal Circulatory Transition" at the 97th Perinatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium June 9-11, 2021.

Neonatal Heart Maturation SuperSeries Contributed to the Gene Expression Omnibus repository(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Editorial Commentary: Scot J. Matkovich. Of Caps and Gaps, Postnatal Hearts, Elusive Facts, and lncs. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics: 2016; 9:389-391. PMID: 27756779.
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.116.001608(Link is external)

Decoding the Long Noncoding RNA During Cardiac Maturation: A Roadmap for Functional Discovery(Link is external) (Link opens in new window).

JovE: Fetal Heart Echocardiography. https://www.jove.com/video/57210/fetal-mouse-cardiovascular-imaging-using-high-frequency-ultrasound(Link is external) (Link opens in new window).