Santangelo Research Team

The mission of the Kelly Santangelo research team is to enhance healthspan throughout lifespan by aiding and abetting functional, independent, and/or pain-free mobility.

The Santangelo research team is a part of the:

research project

Translational Research

Enhance healthspan throughout lifespan by aiding and abetting functional, independent, and/or pain-free mobility.

research project

Clinical Research

Improve the diagnostic quality (accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and positive/negative predictive values) of antemortem testing for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), while maintaining low cost, minimally invasive and clinically applicable qualities.

Publications

Removal of the infrapatellar fat pad and associated synovium benefits female guinea pigs in the Dunkin Hartley model of idiopathic osteoarthritis.
Afzali MF, Sykes MM, Burton LH, Patton KM, Lee KR, Seebart C, Vigon N, Ek R, Narez GE, Marolf AJ, Sikes KJ, Haut Donahue TL, Santangelo KS. Ann Transl Med. 2024 Jun 10;12(3):43. doi: 10.21037/atm-23-1886. Epub 2024 Jun 5. PMID: 3891155

Comparison of two point of care lactate instruments in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus).
Levy IH, Spittler AP, Santangelo KS, Sadar MJ.J Exot Pet Med. 2023 Jun;46:7-11. doi: 10.1053/j.jepm.2023.03.002. Epub 2023 Mar 16. PMID: 38894854

Non-transgenic guinea pig strains exhibit divergent age-related changes in hippocampal mitochondrial respiration.
Walsh MA, Latham AS, Zhang Q, Jacobs RA, Musci RV, LaRocca TJ, Moreno JA, Santangelo KS, Hamilton KL. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2024 Aug;240(8):e14185. doi: 10.1111/apha.14185. Epub 2024 Jun 11. PMID: 38860650

Impact of long-term rapamycin treatment on age-related osteoarthritis in common marmoset.
Minton DM, Ailiani AR, Focht MDK, Kersh ME, Marolf AJ, Santangelo KS, Salmon AB, Konopka AR. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 May 17:2024.05.14.594256. doi: 10.1101/2024.05.14.594256. PMID: 38798488

Blood flow restriction training does not negatively alter the mechanical strength or histomorphology of uninjured equine superficial digital flexor tendons.
Johnson SA, Sikes KJ, Johnson JW, Van Zeeland E, Wist S, Santangelo KS, King MR, Frisbie DD. Equine Vet J. 2024 Apr 24. doi: 10.1111/evj.14083. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38659234

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People

Kelly Santangelo, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.A.C.V.P.

Lab Principal Investigator [PI]
Associate Professor

Mary Afzali, Ph.D.

Research Scientist II

Heidi Kloser

Graduate Research Assistant

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Michelle Larsen, D.V.M.

Graduate Research Assistant

Lauren Smanik

Joint Advised Graduate Research Assistant

Maureen Walsh

Graduate Research Assistant
2023-2024 Deans Fellow

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contact information

Office: Pathology room 216

Lab:
Pathology room 207
Diagnostic Medical Center lab 140

(970) 491-5015