Mary Kearney
American biologist
Mary F. Kearney is an American biologist. She is a senior scientist and head of the translational research section in the HIV dynamics and replication program at the National Cancer Institute.
Education
Kearney completed a B.A. (1996) and M.S. in biomedical science (2001) at Hood College. Her master's thesis was titled Determining the resistance profile of conocurvone, an early-stage inhibitor of HIV-1 replication. Her advisor was Luke Pallansch. Kearney received a Ph.D. in biology from Catholic University of America in 2007 under the direction of John Coffin, Sarah Palmer, and Venigalla B. Rao. Her thesis was titled HIV-1 evolution in recently infect patients. She received The Benedict T. DeCicco Award for Excellence in Graduate Research in 2008.
Career and research
In 2001 she joined the National Cancer Institute's HIV Drug Resistance Program (DRP; renamed the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program in 2015) as a biologist in the virology core. In 2008 she was promoted to head of the translational research section where she oversees a team that investigates HIV genetics and expression in vivo, the sources of persistent viremia during antiretroviral therapy (ART), the sources of rebound viremia after stopping ART, the mechanisms for maintaining the HIV reservoir, and the mechanisms for the emergence of HIV drug resistance mutations.
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