Sallam Research Lab

Investigating Regulatory RNAs in Cardiometabolic Disease

The Sallam lab is in the Department of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Located in the state-of-the-art Cardiovascular Theme Facility in the CHS building. Our lab uses cellular, molecular, and disease models to determine how genes impact cardiovascular disease.

In the News

• July 19, 2021: UCLA Newsroom
  RNA modification may protect against liver disease, explain liver fat differences between sexes
• February 12, 2018: Nature Medicine
  Newly discovered gene may protect against heart disease; Transcriptional regulation of macrophage cholesterol efflux and atherogenesis by along noncoding RNA.
• August 28, 2017: UCLA Newsroom
  Gene therapy using ‘junk DNA’ could lower risk for heart disease