Brandy Phipps Bio

Dr. Phipps is an Assistant Professor with a research focus on a) the intersection of climate change, nutrition/health equity, and food systems transformation; and b) holistic interactions of biomolecules in plant extracts and foods and the mechanisms of biomolecules in the prevention/alleviation of disease. Dr. Phipps is Project Director on a $10 M USDA-funded project and Co-Pi on $1.5 M in additional USDA- and FDA-funded projects. Her higher education teaching experience is primarily in the Biological and Life Sciences, and she currently teaches Anatomy and Physiology, Nutrition, and Undergraduate Research classes. She is particularly passionate about providing educational equity, advanced experiential STEM learning opportunities, and personalized mentoring to Persons Excluded because of Ethnicity or Race (PEER) students and those who have been socially and economically disadvantaged.

• VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine/Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2004
  Ph.D. in Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences
  Areas of Concentration: Nutrition, Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Oncology
  Dissertation: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor/ Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Cascade in Mammary Cancer
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2000
  M.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise
  Areas of Concentration: Nutrition, Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Oncology
  Thesis: Vitamin B6 Decreases Proliferation and DNA Synthesis in Human Mammary Carcinoma Cell Lines In Vitro
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998
  B.S. in Nutrition Sciences
  Area of Concentration: Nutrition, Pre-Medicine

1890 Evans Allen Project IV – Food, Nutrition, and Health

• Development or enhancement of intervention strategies for chronic disease using nutrition or nutraceutical interventions, especially in historically disadvantaged populations or other underserved populations.
• Investigation of the interaction of biomolecules in plant extracts and functional foods and determination of potential health impacts of these interactions.

FDA Contract Number 75F40120C00141

• Determination of chemical constituents in smokable and vape hemp products

USDA Capacity Building Grant

• Growing Communities: Establishing incubator farms and farmer`s markets to increase health and economic viability for socially disadvantaged populations

USDA-NIFA Sustainable Agriculture Systems Grant (SUSHI)

• Sustainable aquaculture production of high omega-3 containing fish using a novel feed additive (hemp)

• 2022 Association of Women in Science Spark Award - for making significant contributions to science, increasing workplace diversity, promoting women into leadership positions, and advocating for more inclusive practices in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
• 2022 Central State University President’s Award for Overall Achievement - for achieving excellence in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.
• 2021-2022 Strategic Ohio Council of Higher Education (SOCHE) Faculty Excellence Award – for demonstrating excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship.

• Brandy E. Phipps and Craig Schluttenhofer. 2022. Perspectives of industrial hemp cultivation. Industrial Hemp: Food and Nutraceutical Applications. Ed. Milica Pojić and Brijesh Tiwari. Academic Press, an Imprint of Elsevier.
  doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90910-5.00002-6
• Phipps B.E., Kowalkowski, B., Wescott, J., McFadden, B., Schluttenhofer, C., and Nedunuri, K. Study Protocol to Measure the Impact of a “Farm-to-Fork” Program on Food Security and Nutrition Outcomes in the Menominee Nation, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue Supplement_1, June 2022, Page 1155.
  doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac072.027
• Phipps B.E. & Carter K. (2020). Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk of Career Firefighters in A Low-income Area [Thematic Poster Session]. 2020 Annual Meeting, World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®, and World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise in Regenerative Medicine of the American College of Sports Medicine. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 52(7S):816.
  doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000684312.33508.c2
• Kuruvilla, H. G., Schaffner, A. E., Phipps, B. E. Requiring undergraduate research for a B.S. degree in biology: Does it do any good? Mol. Biol. Cell 16 (supplement), abstract # 1654. Presented at the 45th Annual ASCB Conference, December, 2005.
• Cowing, Brandy E. and Saker, Korinn E. (2001).  Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and EGFR/MAPK Signaling in Mammary Cancer. J. Nutr. 131:1125-1128. DOI: 10.1093/jn/131.4.1125
• Davis Barbara A. and Cowing, Brandy E. (2000).  Pyridoxal Supplementation Reduces Cell Proliferation and DNA Synthesis in Estrogen-Dependent and -Independent Mammary Carcinoma Cell Lines. Nutr. and Cancer 38(2):281-286. DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc382_18

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Aquaculture Community of Practice, 2022 - present.
• Ohio Future Farmers of America, Biotechnology Competition Facilitator/Judge, 2022 - present.
• Association of Women in Science, Education Award Committee and Reviewer, 2022 - present.
• Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Affiliate Faculty, 2021 - present.
• Hemp Feed Coalition, Aquaculture Task Force, 2021 - present.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce, American Society for Cell Biology 2020-2021
• 2018 Ohio Healthcare Diversity Summit - Invited Panel Member, April 2018
• Food Evolution Screening - Invited Panel Member, April 2018
• Science Day Judge (County, District & State), 2016 – present
• Champion City Scholars High School Mentor, 2018 – 2022
• Health Path of Ohio Grant Reviewer, 2018 – present
• Clark County Local Food Council, Member and Chair, 2017 – 2022
• Ohio Tri-County Food Alliance d.b.a. Second Harvest Food Bank, Board Member & Officer, 2017- 202

• The Sustainable Use of a Safe Hemp Ingredient (SUSHI) project
  https://aerwin33.wixsite.com/sushi
• Phipps, B.E. (2022, July 28). An Examination of the USDA’s Hemp Production Program [Witness] Testimony before the United States House Agriculture Committee, Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, Washington D.C.
  https://youtu.be/uC8BvTEQLYo
• Brown, E. (Host). (2022, May 20). Cannabis (No. 85) [Audio podcast episode]. In The Sweaty Penguin. Peril and Promise: a public media initiative of WNET Studios.
  Brandy E. Phipps Expert Guest Interview
• Is hemp the fish oil alternative of the future?
  November 19, 2021 (feedstrategy.com)
• Phipps BE (May 7 [Interview] and May 14 [Interview], 2021). Extension Central---a ten-minute weekly program produced by Central State University Extension that airs at 12:20 p.m., Friday(s) on WBZI, WKFI and WEDI as part of the Real Roots organization.  The stations are based in Xenia, Wilmington, Eaton, and air throughout southwestern Ohio.
• Phipps BE and Craig Schluttenhofer (February 3, 2021). Ohio farmers still learning how best to grow, process, sell hemp a year into legal cultivation. Aired on Cleveland News Channel 5 Evening News 02/03/2021.
  News 5 Cleveland [Interview]
• Phipps BE and Craig Schluttenhofer (October 22, 2020). CSU gets three-year contract to study smokable hemp flower.
  Farm World. [Interview]
• Phipps BE. Nutrition and Health Implications of Hemp Metabolites and Grain. Central State University Hemp Field Day, October 6, 2020.
• Phipps BE. Nutrition and Health Implications of Hemp Metabolites and Grain. Black Farmers: More than 40 Acres and a Mule, Central State University, September 11, 2020