Siegman Archives

Dr. Siegman has made a generous gift to expand and enhance the Center City Archives and Special Collections at Thomas Jefferson University in order to preserve the rich history of the institution.

Dr. Siegman, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, has spent more than a half century as a researcher and educator at Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC). She is a world-renowned expert in smooth muscle physiology. She earned her BA in biology from Tulane University, then worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York. She moved to the pharmacology department of State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate. In 1959, she traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to work at the Karolinska Institute, and returned in 1960 for SUNY Downstate’s graduate program in Pharmacology. She received her PhD in 1966. In 1967, Dr. Siegman became an instructor in the Department of Physiology at the Jefferson Medical College (now SKMC). She later became Jefferson’s first female full professor, and in 2002 was named the first female chair of the Molecular Physiology and Biophysics department. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physiological Society in 2021.