Prof. Dr. med. vet. Angelika Schoster, PhD, DVSc, Diplomate ACVIM, Diplomate ECEIM

Resume

Professor Angelika Schoster studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. She also completed her doctoral degree there in equine surgery.

She specialized in equine internal medicine through a four-year training program (internship and residency) at the University of Guelph in Canada, during which she earned Diplomate status from the European and American Colleges.

She earned a PhD at the University of Copenhagen and subsequently worked for 10 years as a senior physician at the Clinic for Equine Medicine at the University of Zurich, where she also completed her habilitation.

She has been at LMU since 2023, holds the Chair of Equine Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and heads the Clinic for Equine Medicine.

Additional Qualifications

• Fachtierarzt Pferd
• Fachtierarzt Innere Medizin des Pferdes

Research Interests

• Gastrointestinal Microbiome
• Infectious Diseases in Horses
• Bornavirus

Publications

Orcid-ID: 0000-0002-2162-6550

Web of science-ID: F-6510-2014

2025

• Pain assessment of horses with trigeminal-mediated headshaking (TMHS) at rest between episodes.
  Franzen V, Reisbeck D, Leibl Y, Schoster A, May A.
  JVIM. 2025
  DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.70064

2024

• Acidification is required for calcium and magnesium concentration measurements in equine urine.
  Lapsina S, Stirn M, Hofmann-Lehmann R, Schoster A, Riond B.
  BMC Vet Res. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03848-1
• Treatment approaches to horses with acute diarrhea admitted to referral institutions: A multicenter retrospective study.
  Gomez DE, Dunkel B, Renaud DL, Arroyo L, Schoster A, Kopper JJ, Dunkel B, Byrne D, the MEDS group, Toribio RE
  PlosOne. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313783
• Immune response after vaccination against Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus (TBEV) in horses.
  Kaelin D, BecsekA , Stuermer H, Bachofen C, Siegrist D, Jonsdottir HR, Schoster A.
  Vaccines. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12091074
• Phenotypic shift of inflammatory eosinophil subset into steady-state resident phenotype after 2 years of vaccination against IL-5 in equine insect bite hypersensitivity.
  Schwarz E, Jebbawi F, Keller G, Rhiner T, Fricker A, Waldern N, Canonica F, Schoster A, Fettelschoss-Gabriel A.
  Veterinary Science Journal. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci11100476
• Effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on trigeminal-mediated headshaking in 17 horses.
  Franzen V, Gruber N, Klussman S, Schoster A, May A.
  JVIM. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.17194
• Acute leptospirosis in horses: A retrospective study of 11 cases (2015-2023).
  Ramsay L, Eberhardt C, Schoster A.
  JVIM. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.17184
• Clinical findings and outcome predictors for equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis: 46 cases (2009-2019).
  Craven A, Todd-Donato A, Stokol T, Liepman R, Glasberg I, Wilkins P, Luethy D, Wong D, Schoster A, van den Brom-Spierenburg A, Tomlinson J.
  JVIM. 2024
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.17084
• Serological and Molecular Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 in Horses and Cattle in Switzerland from 2020 to 2022.
  Hüttl J, Reitt K, Meli M, Meili T, Boenzli, E, Pineroli B, Ginders J, Schoster A, Jones S, Tyson GB, Hosie MJ, Pusterla N, Wernike K, Hofmann-Lehmann R.
  Viruses. 2024
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v16020224

2023

• Survival rates and factors associated with survival and laminitis of horses with acute diarrhoea admitted to referral institutions.
  Gomez DE, Dunkel B, Renaud DL, Arroyo L, Schoster A, Kopper JJ, Dunkel B, Byrne D, the MEDS group, Toribio RE.
  EVJ. 2023
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evj.14032
• Diagnostic approaches, aetiological agents and their associations with short-term survival and laminitis in horses with acute diarrhoea admitted to referral institutions.
  Gomez DE, Arroyo L, Schoster A, Renaud DL, Kopper JJ, Dunkel B, Byrne D, the MEDS group, Toribio RE.
  EVJ. 2023
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evj.14024
• Interleukin 5-dependent inflammatory eosinophil subtype involved in allergic insect bite hypersensitivity of horses.
  Pantelyushin S, Rhiner T, Jebbawi F, Sella F, Waldern N, Lam J, Chemnitzer A, Fricker A, Schoster A, Birkmann A, Widmer D, Canonica F, Fettelschoss-Gabriel A.
  Allergy. 2023 ;00:1-4.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.15859
• Preliminary Investigation of Side Effects of Polymyxin B Administration in Hospitalized Horses.
  van Spijk Julia, Beckmann K, Wehrli-Eser M, Boxler M, Stirn M, Saleh L, Schoster A.
  Antibiotics. 2023 12(5)854
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12050854

2022

• Targeting eosinophils by active vaccination against interleukin-5 reduces basophil counts in horses with insect bite hypersensitivity in the 2nd year of vaccination.
  Rhiner T, Fettelschoss V, Schoster A, Birkmann K, Fettelschoss-Gabriel.
  Vet J. 2022
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2022.105896
• Neurological disease suspected due to tick-borne encephalitis virus infection in six horses in Switzerland.
  Magouras I, Schoster A, Fouché N, Gerber V, Groschup M, Fricker R, Ziegler U, Griot C, Vögtlin A.
  J Vet Intern Med. 2022
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.16533
• Investigation of adverse effects of polymyxin B administration in healthy horses.
  van Spijk J, Beckmann K, Wehrli-Eser M, Boxler M, Stirn M, Ryhner T, Kälin D, Saleh L, Schoster A.
  J Vet Intern Med. 2022 36:1525-1534
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.16470
• Outbreak of equine coronavirus disease in adult horses, Switzerland 2021.
  Hierweger M, Remy-Wohlfender F, Franzen J, Koch MC, Blau D, Schoster A, Nicholson P, Gerber V, Gurtner C, Fouche N, Unger L, Seuberlich T.
  Transbound Emerg Dis. 2022 69:1691–1694
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.14501

2021

• Diagnosis of atypical myopathy based on organic acid and acylcarnitine profiles and evolution of biomarkers in surviving horses.
  Mathis D, Sass OJ, Graubner C, Schoster A.
  Molecular Genetics Metabolism Reports. 2021 29:100827
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2021.100827
• Prevalence of Nasal Shedding of Equid Gammaherpesviruses in Healthy Swiss Horses.
  Scheurer L, Bachofen C, Hardmeier I, Lechmann J, Schoster A.
  Viruses. 2021, 13, 1686.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v13091686
• Effect of Exercise on electrical impedance tomography derived from flow variables in horses with equine asthma.
  Herteman N, Mosing M, Blaszczyk K, Graubner C, Lanz S, Gerber V, Waldmann A, Schoster A.
  J Vet Intern Med. 2021, 35: 2500–2510. Accepted.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.16260

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