Dr. Russel V. Anthony is the Hill Professor of Animal Biotechnology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University. His research focuses on the establishment of pregnancy, development of the placenta, and placental function in normal and compromised pregnancies in cattle, pigs, horses and sheep. He implemented in vivo placenta-specific RNA interference (RNAi) methods, pioneered by his laboratory in sheep, to investigate the relative importance of specific genes expressed by the ruminant placenta. He has combined in vivo RNAi with the ability to place indwelling catheters on both the maternal and fetal sides of the placenta in sheep, to allow assessment of nutrient/hormone/waste uptake, transfer and utilization, under steady-state non-stressed, non-anesthetized conditions (2022, J. Anim. Sci. 100:1-14). He has served on many USDA and NIH grant review panels and is a stellar leader, collaborator, mentor and teacher in physiology & endocrinology.