Maria Argos, PhD
Professor, Environmental Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Dr. Argos is an environmental and molecular epidemiologist interested in the effects of metal exposures on cardiometabolic and cancer endpoints across the life course. Her research strongly emphasizes identifying molecular pathways altered by environmental exposures that influence disease risk by leveraging high-dimensional molecular data and biomarker data obtained from biological specimens collected in the epidemiological setting. She is the principal investigator of the Bangladesh Environmental Research in Children's Health (BIRCH) cohort that aims to evaluate early life health effects of arsenic exposure and metal mixtures. She is also a principal investigator of a disease study site examining diabetes and kidney disease progression in collaboration with the newly established Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium and an investigator of the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) and the Chicago Field Center of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. She previously served as a principal investigator of the Illinois site of the national All of Us Research Program. Dr. Argos has extensive experience implementing longitudinal epidemiologic studies among diverse participant populations in the US and internationally. She is also particularly interested in developing epidemiological methods for assessing gene-environment interactions and environmental mixtures.
Education
- Columbia University, PhD Field of Study: Epidemiology
Publications
- Published on 2/8/2025
Chen X, Wang H, Broce I, Dale A, Yu B, Zhou LY, Li X, Argos M, Daviglus ML, Cai J, Franceschini N, Sofer T. Old vs. New Local Ancestry Inference in HCHS/SOL: A Comparative Study. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 08. PMID: 39975339.
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- Published on 1/28/2025
Chen Y, Abrishamcar S, Johnson S, Aqua J, Dye C, Llabre MM, Gallo LC, Pereira KM, Daviglus M, Argos M, Cai J, Thyagarajan B, Baccarelli A, Isasi CR, Kaplan RC, Conneely KN, Suglia SF. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: Nativity as an Effect Modifier. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2025 Mar; 173:107369. PMID: 39883977.
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- Published on 1/10/2025
Jasmine F, Almazan A, Khamkevych Y, Argos M, Shahriar M, Islam T, Shea CR, Ahsan H, Kibriya MG. Gene-Environment Interaction: Small Deletions (DELs) and Transcriptomic Profiles in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC) and Potential Implications for Therapy. Cells. 2025 Jan 10; 14(2). PMID: 39851523.
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- Published on 1/8/2025
Farzan SF, Niu Z, Guo F, Shahriar M, Kibriya MG, Jasmine F, Sarwar G, Jackson BP, Ahsan H, Argos M. Exposure to metal mixtures and telomere length in Bangladeshi children. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Jan 08; 194(1):35-43. PMID: 38973734.
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- Published on 12/18/2024
Quaid M, Haque SE, Islam T, Shahriar MH, Sarwar G, Ahmed A, O'Connell S, Jasmine F, Kibriya MG, Ahsan H, Argos M. An Assessment of Multipollutant Exposures Using Silicone Wristbands Among Bangladeshi Youth. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Dec 18; 21(12). PMID: 39767529.
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- Published on 12/17/2024
Zhang Y, Spitzer BW, Zhang Y, Wallace DA, Yu B, Qi Q, Argos M, Avilés-Santa ML, Boerwinkle E, Daviglus ML, Kaplan R, Cai J, Redline S, Sofer T. Untargeted metabolome atlas for sleep-related phenotypes in the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos. EBioMedicine. 2025 Jan; 111:105507. PMID: 39693737.
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- Published on 11/1/2024
Weiss MC, Sun J, Jackson BP, Turyk ME, Wang L, Brown EL, Aguilar D, Brown SA, Hanis CL, Argos M, Sargis RM. Accelerated Longitudinal Glycemic Changes in Relation to Urinary Toxic/Essential Metals and Metal Mixtures Among Mexican Americans Living in Starr County, Texas. Diabetes Care. 2024 Nov 01; 47(11):1908-1915. PMID: 39277806.
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- Published on 10/29/2024
Rao H, Weiss MC, Moon JY, Perreira KM, Daviglus ML, Kaplan R, North KE, Argos M, Fernández-Rhodes L, Sofer T. Advancements in genetic research by the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: A 10-year retrospective review. HGG Adv. 2025 Jan 09; 6(1):100376. PMID: 39473183.
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- Published on 10/7/2024
Jorgensen JA, Choo-Kang C, Wang L, Issa L, Gilbert JA, Ecklu-Mensah G, Luke A, Bedu-Addo K, Forrester T, Bovet P, Lambert EV, Rae D, Argos M, Kelly TN, Sargis RM, Dugas LR, Dai Y, Layden BT. Toxic Metals Impact Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Risk in Five African-Origin Populations. medRxiv. 2024 Oct 07. PMID: 39417117.
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- Published on 10/1/2024
Abasilim C, Persky V, Sargis RM, Argos M, Daviglus ML, Freels S, Tsintsifas K, Day T, Cai J, Isasi CR, Peters BA, Talavera GA, Thyagarajan B, Turyk ME. Correction to: Association of Acculturation and Hispanic/Latino Background with Endogenous Sex and Thyroid-Related Hormones Among Middle-Aged and Older Hispanic/Latino Adults: the HCHS/SOL Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Oct; 11(5):3234. PMID: 37725253.
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News & In the Media
- Published on August 31, 2023