[1] Following the completion of her doctorate, Zipser was awarded a Wellcome Trust grant for a postdoctoral project on a vernacular Greek medical text by John the Physician.
Zipser produced the first critical edition and translation of the text, which was published by Brill in 2009, as John the Physician's Therapeutics: a Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek.
In 2019, Zipser won a Collaborative Wellcome Award for a project that develops a methodology for the identification of medicinal plants and minerals.
[3] Zipser established 'Simon Online', a crowd-sourced open-access Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century CE.
[5] Zipser used her skills in linguistic analysis to profile the ransom notes in order to determine the kidnappers identity, comparing them with writing samples by Werner Mazurek, the man who was convicted.