Glynnis Garry, M.D. Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Internal Medicine | Molecular Biology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Glynnis Garry, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Division of Cardiology. She holds a secondary appointment in the Deparment of Molecular Biology and the Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine. Dr. Garry holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and earned her medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. She received molecular biology training at UT Southwestern in the laboratory of Eric Olson, Ph.D., after being awarded the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research fellowship. She the completed internal medicine residency training, postdoctoral research fellowship training, and clinical cardiology fellowship training through the Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at UT Southwestern and Parkland Health. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Garry joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2024. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Garry’s research interests are focused on discovery of therapies for heart failure and myocardial infarction. Her NIH-funded laboratory focuses on the transcriptional and epigenetic control of heart development and cardiac cell fate differentiation, with a focus on direct fibroblast to cardiomyocyte reprogramming. Her investigations have resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, patents, and presentations at national and international scientific conferences. Dr. Garry has received a number of awards for her research, including the Donald W. Seldin Research Scholar, the Astra-Zeneca Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists. She was awarded the prestigious Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize in 2020 and the Melvin L. Marcus Early Career Investigator Award in 2023 by the American Heart Association. Dr. Garry is active in several professional societies, including the American Heart Association, the Stanley Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, and the International Society for Heart Research. Education Medical School Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2016) Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018), Internal Medicine Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center (2024), Cardiology Publications Reprogramming of cardiac cell fate as a therapeutic strategy for ischemic heart disease Garry GA, Olson EN Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2023 Jun 179 2-6 Cardiac Reprogramming: Toward a Total Eclipse of the Failing Heart Garry GA, Olson EN Circulation 2023 Jan 147 239-241 Direct reprogramming as a route to cardiac repair Garry GA, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 2022 Feb 122 3-13 The histone reader PHF7 cooperates with the SWI/SNF complex at cardiac super enhancers to promote direct reprogramming Garry GA, Bezprozvannaya S, Chen K, Zhou H, Hashimoto H, Morales MG, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN Nature cell biology 2021 May 23 467-475 Cardiac Reprogramming Factors Synergistically Activate Genome-wide Cardiogenic Stage-Specific Enhancers Hashimoto H, Wang Z, Garry GA, Malladi VS, Botten GA, Ye W, Zhou H, Osterwalder M, Dickel DE, Visel A, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN Cell Stem Cell 2019 Jul 25 69-86.e5 Deficiency in Kelch protein Klhl31 causes congenital myopathy in mice Papizan JB, Garry GA, Brezprozvannaya S, McAnally JR, Bassel-Duby R, Liu N, Olson EN Journal of Clinical Investigation 2017 Oct 127 3730-3740 Cell therapy and heart failure Garry GA, Garry DJ 2017 Jun 401-413 A Twist2-dependent progenitor cell contributes to adult skeletal muscle Liu N, Garry GA, Li S, Bezprozvannaya S, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Chen B, Shelton JM, Jaichander P, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN Nature cell biology 2017 Mar 19 202-213 Cardiotoxin induced injury and skeletal muscle regeneration Garry GA, Antony ML, Garry DJ Methods in Molecular Biology 2016 1460 61-71 Somatic Cell Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure: In Search of Mechanistic Insights Garry GA, Garry DJ Journal of Cardiac Failure 2015 Jul 21 583-585 Results 1-10 of 11 1 2 Next Last Honors & Awards Finalist, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (2023) Astra-Zeneca Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigator AwardBest Basic Science Award (2021) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Postdoctoral FellowsNational Institutes of Health (NHLBI) (2021) Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Early Career InvestigatorsAmerican Heart Association (2020) Best Basic Science Research ArticleUT Southwestern Internal Medicine House Staff Award (2018) Donald W. Seldin Research Scholar (2017) The Rudolph H. Kampmeier Prize in MedicineVanderbilt University School of Medicine (2016) Best of BCVS 2019Best of American Heart Association Specialty Conferences Domer Dozen AwardeeUniversity of Notre Dame Alumni Association Professional Associations/Affiliations Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (2015) American Heart Association (2014) American Medical Association (2011) International Society for Heart Research, North American Division (2020) Stanley Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation (2014)
