Maria Argos, PhD
Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Environmental Health

PhD, Columbia University
MPH, Columbia University
BS, Boston College



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.


Health Equity Research and HEROIC Prostate Cancer Precision Health (PCaPH) Africa1K: Powering Precision Health to Improve Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Africa
09/30/2024 - 09/29/2028 (Subcontract PI)
University of Illinois Chicago Campus DOD Army Med Resrch


Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site
09/12/2023 - 05/31/2028 (Subcontract PI)
University of Illinois Chicago Campus NIH NHGRI
5U01HG013275-02

Impact of Metals on Biological Aging and Cardiometabolic Traits in Adolescents
07/15/2024 - 03/31/2028 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
7R01ES033883-03

2/2 Bangladesh Center for Global Environmental and Occupational Health-US
03/01/2023 - 02/28/2026 (Subcontract PI)
University of Chicago NIH FIC
5U2RTW010122-09



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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2025 Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site 5U01HG013275-03
2024 Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site 5U01HG013275-02
2024 Impact of Metals on Biological Aging and Cardiometabolic Traits in Adolescents 7R01ES033883-03
2023 Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site 1U01HG013275-01
2023 Impact of Metals on Biological Aging and Cardiometabolic Traits in Adolescents 5R01ES033883-02
2023 Illinois Precision Medicine Consortium 3OT2OD026557-01S6
2022 Impact of Metals on Biological Aging and Cardiometabolic Traits in Adolescents 1R01ES033883-01A1
2022 Illinois Precision Medicine Consortium 3OT2OD026557-01S4
2021 Illinois Precision Medicine Consortium 3OT2OD026557-01S3 1
2018 Molecular and clinical endocrine impacts of arsenic exposure in children 5R01ES024423-05 6
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  1. 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. Hum Mol Genet. 2025 Aug 16; 34(16):1405-1418. PMID: 40485222; PMCID: PMC12361116; DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaf093;
     
  2. Noriega Esquives BS, Manoharan A, Penedo FJ, Dee EC, Mahal BA, Punnen S, Rodriguez-Saltzman X, Perreira KM, Parada H, Argos M, Hougen HY. Factors associated with prostate cancer screening among Hispanic men: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Cancer. 2025 Aug 15; 131(16):e70029. PMID: 40772774; PMCID: PMC12330312; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.70029;
     
  3. Abrishamcar S, Aqua JK, Dye C, Jones-Antwi R, Chen Y, Gallo LC, Llabre MM, Perreira KM, Daviglus ML, Argos M, Thyagarajan B, Hüls A, Baccarelli A, Cai J, Isasi CR, Kaplan RC, Conneely KN, Suglia SF. Cumulative psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Epigenomics. 2025 Sep; 17(13):865-877. PMID: 40747766; PMCID: PMC12369621; DOI: 10.1080/17501911.2025.2540260;
     
  4. Hutten CG, Boehm FJ, Smith JA, Spitzer BW, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Isasi CR, Cai J, Unkart JT, Sun J, Persky V, Daviglus ML, Sofer T, Argos M. Differential performance of polygenic risk scores for heart disease in Hispanic/Latino subgroups: Findings of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. HGG Adv. 2025 Oct 09; 6(4):100486. PMID: 40734275; PMCID: PMC12391791; DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100486;
     
  5. Ellis S, Song S, Reiman D, Hui X, Zhang R, Shahriar MH, Argos M, Kamal M, Shea CR, Grossman RL, Khan AA, Ahsan H. AI-assisted Diagnosis of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in Resource-Limited Settings. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jul 01; 34(7):1080-1088. PMID: 40287980; PMCID: PMC12209823; DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-25-0132;
     
  6. Kibriya MG, Almazan A, Argos M, Islam T, Shea CR, Ahsan H, Jasmine F. Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Somatic Mutation in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer (NMSC): Association with Transcriptomic Profile and Potential Implications for Therapy. Cancers (Basel). 2025 May 15; 17(10). PMID: 40427167; PMCID: PMC12110349; DOI: 10.3390/cancers17101669;
     
  7. 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; PMCID: PMC11838596; DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.04.636481;
     
  8. 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; PMCID: PMC11883801; DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107369;
     
  9. 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; PMCID: PMC11764317; DOI: 10.3390/cells14020095;
     
  10. 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; PMCID: PMC12034834; DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae181;
     
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2018 University of Illinois at Chicago: Rising Star in Clinical Sciences
2016 Society for Epidemiologic Research Brian MacMahon Early Career Epidemiologist Award: Finalist
2015 Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting: Poster prize winner
2013 AACR Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Workshop: Selected Trainee
2011 North American Congress of Epidemiology: Carol Buck Student Prize Paper Award in International Health
2010 NIEHS: Papers of the Year
2003 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: Award for Academic Excellence in Environmental Health Sciences for the MPH
2003-2006 NCI Training Program in Cancer Epidemiology: Predoctoral T32 Fellowship
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