Patricia Silveyra (born January 20, 1981) is an Argentine-American lung physiologist and professor of Environmental 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][4]
Dr. Silveyra was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, one of the most prestigious public high schools in Argentina and Latin America. She later obtained a Licenciatura in Biological Sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the 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 and the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica.[5][6]
In 2008, Silveyra was the only Argentine selected as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, and she moved to Hershey, PA to conduct a postdoctoral training at Penn State College of Medicine in the lab of lung physiologist Joanna Floros.[7] In 2013, she started her own laboratory at Penn State College of Medicine, after receiving funding from Graduate Women in Science and the National Institutes of Health.[8] She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018.[9] From 2018-2020, she worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Director of the Biobehavioral Laboratory and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished term Associate Professor.[10] In 2021, she moved her laboratory to Indiana University Bloomington where she currently leads a NIH funded research group.
