Leah Makaron, DVM
Makaron graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Animal Science and spent several years working in a neuroscience lab prior to attending veterinary school. She graduated from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, following her clinical year at Iowa State School of Veterinary Medicine. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship/residency program at the New England Primate Research Center/Harvard Medical School and remained at NEPRC working as a clinical veterinarian. In 2015, she relocated to Philadelphia to work as an Associate Director/Clinical Research Veterinarian with the Gene Therapy Program at Penn Vet. Leah has been a part of University Laboratory Animal Resources (ULAR) since 2017, where she currently serves as a clinical veterinarian for ULAR and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathobiology at Penn Vet. Leah holds specialty certification as a Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine as well as certification in veterinary acupuncture. Her interests are complementary and integrative medicine, advocacy and outreach, and teaching veterinary technicians, residents and veterinary students.
Wilson, J. M., Wallace, C. K., Brice, A. K., Makaron, L. Mineralized trichobezoars in a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) Journal of Medical Primatology 49: 158-161, 2020.
Lyubarsky, A., Wielechowski, E., Aleman, T. S., Maguire, A. M., Ying, G. S., Bote, E., Makaron, L., Morgan, J. I. W., Tretiakova, A., Wilson, J., Bennett, J. Safety of subretinal delivery of RGX-314 (AAV8-anti-VEGF Fab) in the non-human primate as assessed by full-field ERG Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 59: , 2018.
Greig, J. A., Nordin, J. M., Bote, E., Makaron, L., Garnett, M. E., Kattenhorn, L. M., Bell, P., Goode, T., Wilson, J. M. Impact of intravenous infusion time on AAV8 vector pharmacokinetics, safety, and liver transduction in cynomolgus macaques Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev 3: 16079, 2016.
Wang, L. L., Wilson, J. M., Calcedo, R., Bell, P., He, Z. N., White, J., Hewitt, M., Makaron, L., Kattenhorn, L., Wadsworth, S., Goode, T. Strategies for selection of AAV Vectors for administration to liver: studies in nonhuman primates Blood 128: , 2016.
Kramer, J. A., Grindley, J., Crowell, A. M., Makaron, L., Kohli, R., Kirby, M., Mansfield, K. G., Wachtman, L. M. The common marmoset as a model for the study of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis Veterinary Pathology 52: 404-13, 2015.
Makaron, L., Moran, C. A., Namjoshi, O., Rallapalli, S., Cook, J. M., Rowlett, J. K. Cognition-impairing effects of benzodiazepine-type drugs: role of GABAA receptor subtypes in an executive function task in rhesus monkeys Pharmacol Biochem Behav 104: 62-8, 2013.
Makaron, L., Smith, K., Bailey, C., Kaliyaperumal, S., Miller, A., Kramer, J. Immune-mediated interface dermatitis in a rhesus macaque Journal of Medical Primatology 41: 332-5, 2012.
Shamy, J. L., Buonocore, M. H., Makaron, L. M., Amaral, D. G., Barnes, C. A., Rapp, P. R.Hippocampal volume is preserved and fails to predict recognition memory impairment in aged rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Neurobiology of Aging 27: 1405-15, 2006.
Neuroscience – Aging, memory and cognition; enrichment and behavior of animals in biomedical research environments; veterinary acupuncture; advocacy in research animal medicine
Harvard Medical School New England Primate Research Center (2009 to 2011) Post-doctoral Fellowship in Comparative Medicine
Clinical Specialties:
ULAR, laboratory animals, research animal veterinarian
Education:
DVM (Veterinary Medicine) Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, 2009
Board Certification:
Diplomate, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
Contact:
University of Pennsylvania
School of Veterinary Medicine
3800 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104