Patricia Silveyra

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Patricia Silveyra
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Born (1981-01-20) January 20, 1981 (age 43)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma mater University of Buenos Aires
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Health, Sex Differences
Institutions Indiana University Bloomington
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania State University
Website Research website
Personal website

Patricia Silveyra (born January 20, 1981) is an Argentine-American lung physiologist, professor, and chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health. [1] Her research interests include sex differences in innate immunity, lung disease, air pollution exposure effects, and mechanisms by which sex hormones control lung immunity. [2] [3]

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Biography

Silveyra was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, one of the University of Buenos Aires's high schools. She later obtained a Licenciatura in Biological Sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires, when she was only 21 years old. The first in her family to attend graduate school, Silveyra obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biological Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires at age 26, after completing her doctoral thesis at the Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental and obtaining doctoral scholarships from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council as well as the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. [4] [5]

In 2008, Silveyra was the only Argentine selected as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, and moved to Hershey, Pennsylvania to conduct a postdoctoral training at Penn State College of Medicine under Dr. Joanna Floros. [6] In 2013, she established her independent laboratory at Penn State College of Medicine, after receiving funding from Graduate Women in Science and the National Institutes of Health. [7] Between 2015-2016, she served as Interim Director for Diversity and Inclusion in Education at Penn State College of Medicine, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. [8] From 2018-2020, she worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Director of the Biobehavioral Laboratory and as a Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished term Associate Professor. [9] In 2021, she was recruited to Indiana University Bloomington, as an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, and was named a fellow of the American Thoracic Society. [10] In 2022, Silveyra was named the inaugural Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent Scholar, an academic honor professors receive at Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health. [11] The same year, she was named interim chairperson for the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. [12] In 2023, she was elected permanent chair of the Department following a national search. [13] In 2024, she was the first Latina to attain the rank of Full Professor in the Department and School. [14]

Research contributions

Silveyra's research interests center on the effect of environmental exposures —specifically, inhaled air pollutants and allergens —on respiratory health and disease. He laboratory is composed of several trainees (students, postdocs) working together to understand how these exposures differentially affect males and females, an understudied area. [15]

Her group is working to understand the contribution of male and female sex hormones in the development and progression of lung disease. [16] Silveyra has edited and co-authored the first textbook on sex-based differences in lung physiology, in collaboration with the American Physiological Society. [17] Silveyra's work has garnered support from several funding sources, primarily the National Institutes of Health. She has received multiple awards for the quality and impact of her studies and mentoring of junior trainees.

Advocacy work

An advocate for women and underrepresented scholars in science, Silveyra has served on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of SACNAS, and is currently a co-Principal Investigator of a 5-year $8.6 million grant from the NIH that supports The National Diversity in STEM Conference. [18] She has also been recognized with mentoring awards from the American Physiological Society, Penn State College of Medicine, SACNAS, and Indiana University.

In 2018, Silveyra was selected an early career leader and co-chair of the inaugural cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an initiative designed to bring diverse perspectives from early-career U.S. leaders to important dialogues around how science, engineering, and medicine are shaping the global future. [19] She was re-appointed as a member of the second cohort in 2021 and as a member of the New Voices advisory board in 2024. [20] [21] Between 2020-2023, she served on the NASEM Board on Higher Education and Workforce. [22] [23] With these organizations, she led international science discussions at the World Laureates Forum and the Science and Technology in Society Forum. She currently serves in several research advisory bodies, such as the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods and the Inter Academy Partnership.

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