FUNDING, AWARDS & PATENTS

FUNDING

Title: Hippocampal Arterioles and Brain Injury in Preeclampsia and Eclampsia
Type: R01 NS108455-04
Agency: NINDS; Total Direct Support:  $1,950,000 Period: 07/01/18-05/31/24
PI: Marilyn J. Cipolla, Ph.D.

Title: Targeting Pial Collaterals for Acute Stroke Treatment (PI: Cipolla)
Type: 2R01 NS093289-06
Agency: NIH, NINDS; Total Direct Support: $2,270,991: Period: 05/31/21-06/30/26
PI: Marilyn J. Cipolla, Ph.D.

Title: Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health
Type: P20 Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)
Agency: NIH, NIGMS; Total Direct Support: $1,500,000; Period: 07/01/19-06/30/2024
PI/PD: Mark Nelson, PhD and Mary Cushman, MD
Role: Project mentor for 2 Projects

Title: Sevoflurane Induced Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Infant Offspring from Preeclamptic Pregnancies
Type: Mentored Research Training Grant
Agency: Foundation for Anesthesia Research; Total Direct Support: $250,000; Period 01/01/22-12/31/24
PI: Emmett Whitaker, MD
Role: Primary mentor

Title: Hippocampal vascular function in chronic hypertension and post-stroke dementia
Type: Career Development Award 20CDA35310239
Agency: American Heart Association; Total Direct Support: $210,000; Period 07/01/20-06/30/24
PI: Abbie C. Johnson, PhD
Role: Secondary Mentor

Title: Vascular Determinants of Ischemic Stroke Severity in Preeclamptic Mothers and their Offspring
Type: Supplement 3P20GM135007-04S1
Agency: NIH, NIGMS; Total Direct Support: $178,057: Period: 06/01/23-05/31/24
PI: Mary Cushman, Ph.D. and Mark Nelson, Ph.D.
Role: Co-Investigator
Project Director: Emmett Whitaker, MD

 

MARILYN J. CIPOLLA, Ph.D. HONORS & AWARDS

  • Inductee, Vermont Academy of  Science and Engineering (2023)
  • Gabor and Harriette Kaley Endowed Lecturer Award (2023)
  • Thomas Willis Lecture Award, AHA Stroke Council (2021)
  • UVM Medical Alumni Association’s Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, (2020)
  • Graduate Students Choice Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, University of Mississippi (2017)
  • University Scholar, University of Vermont (2015)
  • Fellow, AHA Stroke Council (2012)
  • Jacob de Back Lecturer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2011)
  • President's Achievement Award - Society for Gynecologic Investigation (2010)
  • President, Perinatal Research Society (2010)
  • Giorgio Pardi Award (2009)
  • Fellow, Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiologic Society (2007)
  • Center for Gender Studies Inaugural Lecturer, OHSU, (2007)
  • Established Investigator of the AHA (2004)
  • Fellow, AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research (2001)
  • Young Investigator Award, Perinatal Research Society, (1999)
  • James A. Shannon Director's Award, NIH, Office of the Director (1998)

PATENTS

  • US patent No. 9,393,288 filed as application no. 15/212,645 issued March 25, 2016.
    Title: Methods of treating diseases associated with PPARg; Inventor: Marilyn J. Cipolla
  • US patent No. 9,568,487 filed as application no. 14/045,038 issued February 14, 2017.
    Title: Oxidized LDL as a biomarker for neurological complications of pregnancy; Inventor: Marilyn J. Cipolla
  • US patent filed as application no. 15/403,326 issued November 26, 2019.
    Title: Oxidized LDL as a biomarker for neurological complications of pregnancy; Inventor: Marilyn J. Cipolla