Mary Armanios

Mary Yousry Armanios is a Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Clinical Director of the Telomere Center at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the role of telomeres in disease.
Career.
Armanios graduated from the Ohio State University with a doctorate in medicine in 1996. She then did a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Ohio State University, followed by two fellowships at Johns Hopkins. When she began studying idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), Armanios was a research fellow in the laboratory of Carol Greider, who later won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her work on telomerase. Armanios published her research relating TERT and IPF in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Armanios opened her laboratory at Johns Hopkins in 2007. She now studies the role of telomerase and other enzymes in lung disease. Her lab also maintains a registry of disorders affected by genetic mutations relating to telomerase.
In 2013, she was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.