Prof. Dr. Patricia Silveyra is a Chair, associate professor, and Anthony D. Pantaleoni eminent scholar in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington in USA. Her research focuses on sex differences and the role of sex hormones and steroid hormone receptors in mechanisms of lung inflammation. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and did her postdoctoral training at Penn State College of Medicine. In 2013, she established her independent research program as an assistant professor at Penn State with an NIH K12 BIRCWH (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers on Women’s Health) award. She later received NIH K01 and R03 awards from NHLBI. She was promoted to associate professor in 2018, prior to joining the School of Nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she led the Biobehavioral Laboratory core facility for two years. In 2021, she joined Indiana University Bloomington as a tenure-track associate professor and received an R01 from NHLBI. She has 57 publications with 1,750 citations and an h-index of 22 (Scopus, 16 October 2023).