Congratulations to our MOMI Seeds pilot grant awardee, Dr. Itay Budin (Itay Budin ) for receiving the ASBMB Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research!

DYK: HMI faculty Dr. Philip Anderson developed and continues to maintain th US National Library of Medicine's Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50192… HMI faculty: hmi.ucsd.edu/about-us/facul…

DYK: HMI co-director and UC Health Milk Bank executive director Dr. Lisa Stellwagen is a YouTube star! Her videos on Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition (SPIN) have been watched more than 5M times! See them all on our HMI website: hmi.ucsd.edu/programs/spin-…

Postdoc position available at MOMI CORE and Valerie Verhasselt! #GHMRC Global Human Milk Research Consortium nature.com/naturecareers/…

HMI partners with UCSD_PREPARE to create infrastructure for rapidly analyzing impact of future pandemics and other health threats on #breastfeeding and human milk. hmi.ucsd.edu/programs/prepa… First step: Dev Grants in Pandemic Prevention & Human Milk Res: prepare.ucsd.edu/cores/developm…

Hiring a postdoctoral fellow UC San Diego/ UC San Diego Health Sciences with extensive knowledge/experience in mouse physiology/development/pathology to discover short-and long-term effects of milk bioactives on offspring health and development. Please share with your colleagues and networks!

Ratnesh Lal, a professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering at UC San Diego, received a MOMI CORE grant to study the biophysical aspects of milk fat globule membrane, looking at microorganism interactions and relevance to infectious diseases: medschool.ucsd.edu/research/coe/m…

And THIS is what it's all about!! - Listen to Dr. Stephanie Lehman's survivor story of "Sixteen Days" and meet her special "guest" Izzie who went from ~500 grams to starting college this fall... hmi.ucsd.edu/symposium/impr…

We welcome Dr. Pia Pannaraj to UC San Diego and as our 42nd HMI faculty member! Dr. Pannaraj is interested in the role of human milk immune factors in the protection of infants against infectious diseases and on early life immune development. hmi.ucsd.edu/about-us/facul…

GHMRC is gaining momentum! The Global Human Milk Research Consortium (GHMRC, ghmrc.org) had their second multi-day meeting in Oxford a few days ago. A collective multi-disciplinary approach to human milk research with support in perpetuity is a game-changer.

We love it when our MOMI Seeds pilot grants engage and activate great scientists to apply their expertise to human milk! Congratulations to Dr. Hiutung Chu 朱曉彤 @chulab.bsky.social for such beautiful work published in Cell Host & Microbe!