Pharmacologist and Associate Professor working at the Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Pharmacology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The researcher is the principal investigator of projects emphasizing endothelial dysfunction, nitrergic and purinergic P2 signaling in chronic inflammatory diseases that still have sub-optimal pharmacological treatment (unmet clinical need) such as schistosomiasis , pulmonary artery hypertension and BPH. She also collaborates with researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC, US) and the Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) and researchers at Brazilian institutions. The researcher is affiliated with the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), the Brazilian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (SBFTE), the Brazilian Purine Club, and Graduate Women in Science. She is a member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Analytical and Experimental Pharmacology and a reviewer for the European Journal of Pharmacology, Neuroscience, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and PLoS One. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/claudia%20lucia.silva.1/bibliography/public/