6 December The University of Iowa and FOE DRC Welcome Dr. Ethan Anderson December 6, 2016 By The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center 0 I am pleased to announce the recruitment of Ethan Anderson, PhD to the FOEDRC. Dr. Anderson recently joined the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics within the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics as an Associate Professor in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Dr. Anderson received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and PhD from Yale University. Dr. Anderson’s research is focused on cardiac complications of diabetes, cardiac inflammation and fibrosis, and towards development of novel therapeutics and biomarkers of heart disease risk. The primary research focus of Dr. Anderson’s laboratory is centered on the role of lipids and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in altering mitochondrial function, and in how the mitochondria uses these and other molecular intermediates to communicate with the rest of the cell, particularly the nucleus, in normal physiological states as well as disease. An increased understanding of these processes, coupled with improvements in mitochondrial-targeted pharmaceutical chemistry, will allow a new era to become realized where mitochondria are a viable therapeutic target in disease management. Dr. Anderson’s team recently established a strong and dynamic collaboration with cardiac surgeons at East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI), and this has allowed them to obtain human cardiac tissue biopsies from patients at time of surgery. Using a number of techniques to study mitochondrial function at the subcellular (i.e. organelle) and whole cell level in human heart tissue, they have recently uncovered a number of interesting mitochondrial abnormalities present in patients with type 2 diabetes. Anderson’s group was one of the first to show the existence of mitochondrial dysfunction in heart samples obtained from humans with diabetes in a landmark publication in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2009. Dr. Anderson’s current research projects span clinical, translational and basic science research. His approach increases the likelihood of developing therapeutic strategies that will be able to enter human trials. Research in the Anderson lab is supported by Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutic industry. 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Williams & Ree to Open Welcome to Phoenix Show Musical comedy duo Williams and Ree will open this year's Welcome to Phoenix show on Sunday, Aug. 1, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge as part of the 2021 Fraternal Order of Eagles International Convention. This long running duo eschews political correctness and conformity and spins comedy gold from the union of an unlikely duo. The framework surrounding the comedic pair is music, which has earned them a CMA vocal duo nomination. Their television credits include Country Kitchen, HeeHaw, Laff TV and Comedy Central. They currently host Country Thunder Music Festivals around North America and are featured on Sirius Radio. Sawyer Brown Headlines Sunday Welcome Show The Fraternal Order of Eagles is bringing a bit of country to the desert this summer as country music legends Sawyer Brown headline the 2021 Welcome to Phoenix Show as part of our annual International Convention, Sunday, August 1 in Phoenix, Ariz. The show is free to all registered Convention attendees and will be held inside the JW Marriott Desert Ridge – the home site of this year’s Convention. Since their debut on “Star Search” in the early 1980’s, Sawyer Brown has gone on to release 23 studio albums with more than 50 chart singles. In addition to the band’s success on country radio, the group has taken home CMA, ACM, CMT and MCN Awards. However, Sawyer Brown is most known for their wildly entertaining live performances, having played more than 4,500 shows throughout the world. Sawyer Brown is a five-man band including singer Mark Miller, keyboardist Gregg “Hobie” Hubbard, lead guitarist Shayne Hill, bassist Jim Scholten, and drummer Joe Smyth. Showing 0 Comment Comments are closed.