Mary Armanios

Mary Armanios is Professor of Oncology, Genetic Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Biology, and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the 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. Armanios published her research relating TERT mutations to the etiology of IPF in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the New England Journal of Medicine. She is also an elected member of the Interurban Clinical Club and the Association of American Physicians. She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019.

From 2017-2022, she served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.