Recent Projects
As the world’s largest sponsor of Lipedema research, the Lipedema Foundation is excited to announce our 2022 Research Award recipients. The projects are listed below by geography. You can also see the ongoing projects funded in the 2021 award cycle. You can also view by topic. Learn about past projects as well as the impact that LF-sponsored research has made on the study of Lipedema.
2022 Award Cycle
Europe
Matthias Blüher and Pamela A. Nono Nankam
Mechanisms underlying the development and clinical manifestations of Lipedema: Lessons from a single-cell approach
2022 Collaborative Award
University of Leipzig and University Hospital
Leipzig, Germany
Epameinondas Gousopoulos
Investigating the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of CD163 biomarker in lipedema
2022 Collaborative Award
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Tim Hucho and Rebecca Dinnendahl
Identification of Lipedema-pain specific sensory measures as basis for future diagnostics
2022 Collaborative Award
University of Cologne
Philipp Kruppa, Sabrina Gohlke, Mojtaba Ghods, and Tim J. Schulz
Assessment of gene expression-based molecular biomarkers for lipedema diagnosis, reproducible disease staging, and personalized clinical care
Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann gGmbH
Potsdam, Germany
Carla Stecco, Caterina Fede, and Carmelo Pirri
Role of fascial alterations in lipedema
2022 Collaborative Award
University of Padova
Padova, Italy
Australia
Louise Koelmeyer, Helen Mackie, Belinda Thompson, and Hiroo Suami
Utilizing indocyanine green lymphography (ICG) and bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) to understand lipedema diagnosis in comparison to lymphedema and obesity
2022 Collaborative Award
Macquarie University
Macquarie Park, Australia
Ramin Shayan and Tara Karnezis
Investigating a functionally important population of immune cells as a biomarker and potential therapeutic target in Lipedema
2022 Collaborative Award
St Vincent's Institute for Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
North America
Kelsey H. Collins, PhD and Farshid Guilak, PhD
A Discovery Platform to Understand the Role of Pathological
2022 Collaborative Award
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Rachelle Crescenzi and Aaron W. Aday
Building Lipedema Research Resources
2022 Collaborative Award
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Ngan Huang and Bruce Bunnell
Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Lipedema
2022 Collaborative Award
Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA
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2021Award Cycle
Europe
Jean-Paul Belgrado
Basic Toolbox for Lipedema Syndrome Assessment (BATOLISA Project)
2021 Collaborative Award
Université libre de Bruxelles
Bruxelles, Belgium
Manuel Cornely, Oliver A. Cornely, and Till Hasenberg
How Does Obesity Therapy Affect Lipedema?
2021 Collaborative Award
Ly.Search GmbH
Cologne, Germany
René Hägerling
3D-Histopathology of Lipedema
2021 Proof of Concept
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Institute of Medical and Human Genetics
Berlin, Germany
Philipp Kruppa, Alexander Huppertz and Mojtaba Ghods
Morphological MRI Investigation of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Lipedema Patients
2021 Collaborative Award
Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann gGmbH
Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Microsurgery/Hand Surgery
Potsdam, Germany
Alan Pittman, Pia Ostergaard, and Kristiana Gordon
Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Lipedema
2021 Collaborative Award
St. George’s, University of London, Molecular and Clinical Sciences
London, United Kingdom
Susanne Wolbank and Eleni Priglinger
EV-miRNAs as Diagnostic Biomarkers for Lipedema
2021 Proof-of-Concept Award
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology
Vienna, Austria
North America
Evangelia Bellas and Jennifer Munson
Characterization of Biotransport through Engineered
Lipedemic Tissues
2021 Collaborative Award
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Alan Bunnell
Estrogen Signaling in Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Development of Lipedema
2021 Collaborative Award
University of North Texas Health Center
Fort Worth, TX
Scott J. Cameron
Platelets as Biosensors and Regulators of Metabolism in Lipedema
2021 Proof-of-Concept Award
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
Brant Isakson
Dysfunctional Gap Junction Communication Between Endothelium and Adipocytes in Lipedema
2021 Proof-of-Concept Award
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center
Charlottesville, VA
Samuel Klein and Vincenza Cifarelli
Adipose Tissue Biology and Effect of Weight Loss in
Women with Lipedema
2021 Collaborative Award
Washington University School of Medicine
Center for Human Nutrition
St. Louis, MO
Bruno Péault and Ayelet Dar
Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells in Lipedema: Distribution, Frequency, and Potentials
2021 Collaborative Award
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA
Atefeh Rabiee
Turning up the Heat on Lipedema
2021 Collaborative Award
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA
Eric Ravussin and Ursula White
A Novel Approach to Examine Adipose Cellular
Kinetics of Lipedema
2021 Collaborative Award
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Clinical Science
Baton Rouge, LA
Joseph Rutkowski and Leopoldo Cobos-Salinas
Impact of Combination Therapy on Lipedema Patient
Tissue Stress
2021 Collaborative Award
Texas A&M University College of Medicine
Medical Physiology
Bryan, TX
Melody Swartz
Role of Lymphatic Clotting and Neutrophil NETosis in Lipidema
2021 Proof of Concept Award
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL