Rene Galindo, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical School

Univ of Tx Southwestern Med Ct (2000), Medicine

Graduate School

Univ of Tx Southwestern Med Ct (2000), Genetics

• Model Organisms of Human Biology and Disease
• Muscle Biology, Development, Maintenance, and Disease
• PAX/FKHR/FOXO1A Cell Signaling
• Pediatric Tumor Biology
• Rhabdomyosarcoma

Featured Publications

A Drosophila model of the Rhabdomyosarcoma Initiator PAX7-FKHR.

Galindo RL, Allport J, and Olson EN. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006 103 13493-13444

A role for CKII phosphorylation in dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo.

Liu ZP, Galindo RL, and Wasserman SA. Genes Dev. 1997 11 3413-3422

A gradient of Cactus protein degradation establishes dorsoventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo.

Reach M*, Galindo RL*, Towb P, Allen JL, Karin M, and Wasserman SA. Dev. Biol. 1996 180 353-364

Interaction of the pelle kinase with the membrane-associated protein tube is required for transduction of the dorsoventral signal in Drosophila embryos.

Galindo RL, Edwards DN, Gillespie SKH, and Wasserman SA. Development 1995 121 2209-2218

A Drosophila model of the Rhabdomyosarcoma Initiator PAX7-FKHR.

Galindo RL, Allport J, and Olson EN. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006 103 13439-13444.

Sialoblastoma: a rare submandibular gland neoplasm.

Verret DJ, Galindo RL, DeFatta RJ, and Bauer PW. Ear Nose Throat J. 2006 85 440-442

Hydrolethalus syndrome, in contrast to Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, is not due to a defect in post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis: a case report.

Rakjeha D, Cimo ML, Ramus RM, Rogers BB, Bennett MJ, Boyer PJ, and Galindo RL. Am J Med Genet. 2004 129A 212-213

Disseminated acanthamebiasis in a renal transplant recipient with osteomyelitis and cutaneous lesions: case report and literature review.

Steinberg JP, Galindo RL, and Kraus ES. Clin Infect Dis. 2002 35 E43-49

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists
  (2007)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology Lotte Strauss Prize
  for meritorious work in pediatric pathology research (2007)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology Harry B. Neustein Memorial Award
  for novel approaches to the study of pediatric disease (2005)
• The UTSWMC President’s Research Council 2005 Distinguished Young Researcher Award
  (2005)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology Young Investigator Research Award
  (2004)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology