Sex-Based Differences in Lung Physiology

Sex Differences in Respiratory Physiology.- Sex Differences in the Anatomy of the Airways and the Lungs: Impact on Dysanapsis across the Lifespan.- Sex Steroids and Their Influence in Lung Diseases Across the Lifespan.- Sex Differences in the Developing Lung: Implications for Disease.- Neonatal Lung Disease: Mechanisms Driving Sex Differences.- Sex Differences in Cystic Fibrosis Across the Lifespan.- Sex Differences in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.- Sex-Differences in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.- Sex and Gender Differences in the Susceptibility to Environmental Exposures.- Respiratory Sex Differences in Response to Smoke Exposure.- Sex Differences in Adaptive Immunity in Chronic Lung Disease.- Network Medicine and Systems Biology Considerations to Understand Sex Differences in Lung Disease.- Sex Differences in Respiratory Infection.- Androgen Excess in Women and the Respiratory System.- Sex Differences in Circadian Biology: Influences on Lung Health and Disease.- Sex Differences in the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Dr. Patricia Silveyra is a Distinguished Associate Professor, Director of the Biobehavioral Laboratory, and member of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology (CEMALB) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests are on sex and gender differences in inflammatory lung disease. She specifically studies mechanisms by which sex hormones control inflammatory responses in the lung using mouse and cell models. Dr. Silveyra has published over 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and co-investigator on University-, foundation- and NIH-funded grants. She is a former scholar of the NICHD K12, Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), and the NHLBI Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE). Dr. Silveyra was born and raised in Argentina, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and her PhD in Biochemistry, from the University of Buenos Aires. She moved to the United States as postdoctoral fellow and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Dr. Silveyra is a member and co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) "New Voices" program, and a member of the NASEM Board on Higher Education and Workforce.

 

Dr. Xenia T. Tigno is the Associate Director for Careers at the Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Prior to her current position, she was a Program Officer at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH and of the National Institute for Nursing Research. Dr. Tigno has published in the areas of the biophysics of the microcirculation, obesity, diabetes, aging, community-based epidemiology, chaos analysis, herbal medicine, and women's health. She taught medical physiology for nearly 30 years,