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

Optimization of overhead enclosure monitoring in juvenile male Dunkin Hartley guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus).
Helbling JE, Spittler AP, Sadar MJ, Santangelo KS. Lab Anim. 2023 Apr 18:236772231165810. doi: 10.1177/00236772231165810. Online ahead of print.PMID: 37070354

Fast, non-eccentrically loaded exercise worsens tendinopathic healing responses in a murine model.
Johnson SA, Sikes KJ, Thampi P, McConnell A, Coghlan R, Johnstone B, Santangelo KS, Frisbie DD.Am J Vet Res. 2023 Apr 17:1-9. doi: 10.2460/ajvr.23.01.0018. Online ahead of print.PMID: 37044374

Early removal of the infrapatellar fat pad/synovium complex beneficially alters the pathogenesis of moderate stage idiopathic knee osteoarthritis in male Dunkin Hartley guinea pigs.
Afzali MF, Radakovich LB, Sykes MM, Campbell MA, Patton KM, Sanford JL, Vigon N, Ek R, Narez GE, Marolf AJ, Sikes KJ, Haut Donahue TL, Santangelo KS. Arthritis Res Ther. 2022 Dec 28;24(1):282. doi: 10.1186/s13075-022-02971-y.PMID: 36578046

Full and Partial Mid-substance ACL Rupture Using Mechanical Tibial Displacement in Male and Female Mice.
Timkovich AE, Sikes KJ, Andrie KM, Afzali MF, Sanford J, Fernandez K, Burnett DJ, Hurley E, Daniel T, Serkova NJ, Donahue TH, Santangelo KS.
Ann Biomed Eng. 2022 Sep 7. doi: 10.1007/s10439-022-03065-1. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36070048

Intravenous injection of adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells benefits gait and inflammation in a spontaneous osteoarthritis model.
Afzali MF, Pannone SC, Martinez RB, Campbell MA, Sanford JL, Pezzanite LM, Kurihara J, Johnson V, Dow SW, Santangelo KS.
J Orthop Res. 2022 Aug 27. doi: 10.1002/jor.25431. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36030381

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People

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

Lab Principal Investigator [PI]
Associate Professor

Mary Afzali
Mary Afzali, Ph.D.

Research Scientist II

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Chase Gross, D.V.M.

Graduate Research Assistant
Veterinary Resident

Heidi Kloser
Heidi Kloser

Graduate Research Assistant

Ben Singh
Ben Singh, D.V.M.

Graduate Research Assistant
Veterinary Resident

Collaborators

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March 23, 2021 3 Minute Challenge winners become 2021-22 research fellows

Ariel Timkovich became a 2021 – 2022 VPR research fellow after presenting her research during the 3 Minute Challenge.
January 28, 2021 CSU researchers identify promising model for studying human aging

Researchers of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging believe they have found an animal model that will help them better understand musculoskeletal decline and find ways to curtail the symptoms.
February 11, 2020 ORS 2020 Annual Meeting Award Recipients

Members of the Santangelo Research Group won ORS 2020 awards, including Mary Afzali for a New Investigator Recognition Award (NIRA), and Lindsey Burton as a Preclinical Models poster winner.