Human Milk Institute at UC San Diego
@humanmilkinstitute.bsky.social
UC San Diego's central hub to advance human milk from molecular discoveries to local and global public health impact.
https://hmi.ucsd.edu
https://hmi.ucsd.edu
This Breastfeeding Awareness Month, we want to highlight the importance of each program within HMI and raise awareness of how, together, we are advancing science, care, and advocacy for breastfeeding families. 💙🤱
#HumanMilkScience #BreastfeedingAwarenessMonth
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#HumanMilkScience #BreastfeedingAwarenessMonth
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Human Milk Institute - Breastfeeding Awareness Month 2025
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August 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This Breastfeeding Awareness Month, we want to highlight the importance of each program within HMI and raise awareness of how, together, we are advancing science, care, and advocacy for breastfeeding families. 💙🤱
#HumanMilkScience #BreastfeedingAwarenessMonth
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#HumanMilkScience #BreastfeedingAwarenessMonth
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Thanks to support from Kaiser Hospital Foundation, the Childhood Obesity Initiative and HMI received an additional $30,000 for 2025 mini-grants to fund projects focused on human milk and breastfeeding!
📅 Apply by August 22nd
🔗 Submit your application: bit.ly/4fsEvmP
📅 Apply by August 22nd
🔗 Submit your application: bit.ly/4fsEvmP
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August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thanks to support from Kaiser Hospital Foundation, the Childhood Obesity Initiative and HMI received an additional $30,000 for 2025 mini-grants to fund projects focused on human milk and breastfeeding!
📅 Apply by August 22nd
🔗 Submit your application: bit.ly/4fsEvmP
📅 Apply by August 22nd
🔗 Submit your application: bit.ly/4fsEvmP
TRITON GIVING DAY IS TODAY!
The Kleins are supporting HMI this Triton Giving Day with a $10K gift — and will match every donation up to $15K! Your support can go twice as far to help improve maternal and infant health.🙌🏻🙌🏻
Give Now!: tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
The Kleins are supporting HMI this Triton Giving Day with a $10K gift — and will match every donation up to $15K! Your support can go twice as far to help improve maternal and infant health.🙌🏻🙌🏻
Give Now!: tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
April 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
TRITON GIVING DAY IS TODAY!
The Kleins are supporting HMI this Triton Giving Day with a $10K gift — and will match every donation up to $15K! Your support can go twice as far to help improve maternal and infant health.🙌🏻🙌🏻
Give Now!: tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
The Kleins are supporting HMI this Triton Giving Day with a $10K gift — and will match every donation up to $15K! Your support can go twice as far to help improve maternal and infant health.🙌🏻🙌🏻
Give Now!: tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
Big boost for HMI this Triton Giving Day! 💙
Thanks to Lauren Klein HMI Strategic Advisory Board Member and her father Bob Klein, Klein Financial is matching all donations up to $15K!!
Double your impact for maternal & infant health:
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
Thanks to Lauren Klein HMI Strategic Advisory Board Member and her father Bob Klein, Klein Financial is matching all donations up to $15K!!
Double your impact for maternal & infant health:
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
April 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Big boost for HMI this Triton Giving Day! 💙
Thanks to Lauren Klein HMI Strategic Advisory Board Member and her father Bob Klein, Klein Financial is matching all donations up to $15K!!
Double your impact for maternal & infant health:
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
Thanks to Lauren Klein HMI Strategic Advisory Board Member and her father Bob Klein, Klein Financial is matching all donations up to $15K!!
Double your impact for maternal & infant health:
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
April 30 is #TritonGivingDay! 🔱 - ...and HMI needs your support! - SHARE!
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We are raising funds for our most critical programs: rapid response, community collaborative, and preterm infant survival.
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We are raising funds for our most critical programs: rapid response, community collaborative, and preterm infant survival.
April 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
April 30 is #TritonGivingDay! 🔱 - ...and HMI needs your support! - SHARE!
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
We are raising funds for our most critical programs: rapid response, community collaborative, and preterm infant survival.
tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/campaigns/hu...
We are raising funds for our most critical programs: rapid response, community collaborative, and preterm infant survival.
A huge thank you to all our sponsors for supporting the Human Milk Institute 3rd Annual Symposium! Your generosity helps drive innovation and collaboration in #HumanMilkScience. We truly appreciate your support! #HMI2025
March 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
A huge thank you to all our sponsors for supporting the Human Milk Institute 3rd Annual Symposium! Your generosity helps drive innovation and collaboration in #HumanMilkScience. We truly appreciate your support! #HMI2025
Dr. Nigel Rollins, recently retired Medical Officer from the World Health Organization (WHO), will give a seminar on UCSD Campus this Wednesday (02/26) at 10 am, open to the public!
💡 Register to secure your spot: lnkd.in/gZWs3W3h
#HMI #HumanMilk #PublicHealth #WHO
💡 Register to secure your spot: lnkd.in/gZWs3W3h
#HMI #HumanMilk #PublicHealth #WHO
February 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Dr. Nigel Rollins, recently retired Medical Officer from the World Health Organization (WHO), will give a seminar on UCSD Campus this Wednesday (02/26) at 10 am, open to the public!
💡 Register to secure your spot: lnkd.in/gZWs3W3h
#HMI #HumanMilk #PublicHealth #WHO
💡 Register to secure your spot: lnkd.in/gZWs3W3h
#HMI #HumanMilk #PublicHealth #WHO
🌟 Join Our Community Advisory Board! 🌟
We’re seeking parents & professionals to help improve lactation support in SD County!
📅 April - Nov 2025
🔗https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lWNnr3m3pNVnhk
**Compensation provided.
#LactationSupport #CommunityImpact #UCSDHMI #SanDiego
We’re seeking parents & professionals to help improve lactation support in SD County!
📅 April - Nov 2025
🔗https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lWNnr3m3pNVnhk
**Compensation provided.
#LactationSupport #CommunityImpact #UCSDHMI #SanDiego
February 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🌟 Join Our Community Advisory Board! 🌟
We’re seeking parents & professionals to help improve lactation support in SD County!
📅 April - Nov 2025
🔗https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lWNnr3m3pNVnhk
**Compensation provided.
#LactationSupport #CommunityImpact #UCSDHMI #SanDiego
We’re seeking parents & professionals to help improve lactation support in SD County!
📅 April - Nov 2025
🔗https://ucsd.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3lWNnr3m3pNVnhk
**Compensation provided.
#LactationSupport #CommunityImpact #UCSDHMI #SanDiego
💙 Thank you to our White Sponsors! 💙
Your support helps advance human milk research and innovation, making a real impact on maternal and infant health. We couldn’t do it without you! @milkify @revbioscience
#HumanMilkScience #WhiteSponsors #ThankYou #Research
Your support helps advance human milk research and innovation, making a real impact on maternal and infant health. We couldn’t do it without you! @milkify @revbioscience
#HumanMilkScience #WhiteSponsors #ThankYou #Research
February 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
💙 Thank you to our White Sponsors! 💙
Your support helps advance human milk research and innovation, making a real impact on maternal and infant health. We couldn’t do it without you! @milkify @revbioscience
#HumanMilkScience #WhiteSponsors #ThankYou #Research
Your support helps advance human milk research and innovation, making a real impact on maternal and infant health. We couldn’t do it without you! @milkify @revbioscience
#HumanMilkScience #WhiteSponsors #ThankYou #Research
🌟 A Huge Thank You to Our Blue Sponsors! 🌟Thanks to your support, we're bringing together experts, researchers, and clinicians to shape the future of maternal and infant health through human milk research.
@FOSS @PumpKin @UCSanDiegoExtendedStudiesPremierLactationPrograms @Mamava @Kyowa @MPRINT
@FOSS @PumpKin @UCSanDiegoExtendedStudiesPremierLactationPrograms @Mamava @Kyowa @MPRINT
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
🌟 A Huge Thank You to Our Blue Sponsors! 🌟Thanks to your support, we're bringing together experts, researchers, and clinicians to shape the future of maternal and infant health through human milk research.
@FOSS @PumpKin @UCSanDiegoExtendedStudiesPremierLactationPrograms @Mamava @Kyowa @MPRINT
@FOSS @PumpKin @UCSanDiegoExtendedStudiesPremierLactationPrograms @Mamava @Kyowa @MPRINT
A huge thank you to our generous Silver Sponsors Agilent, @novonesis.com, Kentec, Philips Avent and Brevolution for supporting our 3rd Annual Symposium! Your contributions help advance #HumanMilkScience and make this event possible. We truly appreciate your support! 💙 #HMI2025
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A huge thank you to our generous Silver Sponsors Agilent, @novonesis.com, Kentec, Philips Avent and Brevolution for supporting our 3rd Annual Symposium! Your contributions help advance #HumanMilkScience and make this event possible. We truly appreciate your support! 💙 #HMI2025
Thank you, @Medela, for your generous sponsorship of the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium! Your support helps drive innovation and advance #HumanMilkScience. We truly appreciate your commitment to human milk research and advocacy! 🙌✨ #HMI2025
February 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thank you, @Medela, for your generous sponsorship of the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium! Your support helps drive innovation and advance #HumanMilkScience. We truly appreciate your commitment to human milk research and advocacy! 🙌✨ #HMI2025
Did you hear? UC Health Milk Bank is opening the Irvine Milk Depot! Join them for their very first milk drive in Orange County!
#orangecountymilkdepot #irvinemilkdepot #donorbreastmilk #ucmilkbank #loveineverydrop #pumpitforward
#orangecountymilkdepot #irvinemilkdepot #donorbreastmilk #ucmilkbank #loveineverydrop #pumpitforward
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Did you hear? UC Health Milk Bank is opening the Irvine Milk Depot! Join them for their very first milk drive in Orange County!
#orangecountymilkdepot #irvinemilkdepot #donorbreastmilk #ucmilkbank #loveineverydrop #pumpitforward
#orangecountymilkdepot #irvinemilkdepot #donorbreastmilk #ucmilkbank #loveineverydrop #pumpitforward
🚨 Exciting Announcement! 🚨
Dr. Nigel Rollins, retired WHO Medical Officer, is coming to UCSD this February! 🎉
Join his seminar on Public Health:
🗓 Feb 26, 2025
⏰ 10:00–11:30 AM (PT)
📍 Garren Auditorium, UCSD
Open to students, faculty, researchers & community members!
Dr. Nigel Rollins, retired WHO Medical Officer, is coming to UCSD this February! 🎉
Join his seminar on Public Health:
🗓 Feb 26, 2025
⏰ 10:00–11:30 AM (PT)
📍 Garren Auditorium, UCSD
Open to students, faculty, researchers & community members!
January 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🚨 Exciting Announcement! 🚨
Dr. Nigel Rollins, retired WHO Medical Officer, is coming to UCSD this February! 🎉
Join his seminar on Public Health:
🗓 Feb 26, 2025
⏰ 10:00–11:30 AM (PT)
📍 Garren Auditorium, UCSD
Open to students, faculty, researchers & community members!
Dr. Nigel Rollins, retired WHO Medical Officer, is coming to UCSD this February! 🎉
Join his seminar on Public Health:
🗓 Feb 26, 2025
⏰ 10:00–11:30 AM (PT)
📍 Garren Auditorium, UCSD
Open to students, faculty, researchers & community members!
🔬 Meet Alec Bizieff, Ph.D., Staff Research Associate III at MAC!
With expertise in mass spectrometry & multi-omic analysis, Alec is advancing research on infant nutrition & maternal health by analyzing vitamins in human milk.
#HumanMilkScience #MeetOurTeam
With expertise in mass spectrometry & multi-omic analysis, Alec is advancing research on infant nutrition & maternal health by analyzing vitamins in human milk.
#HumanMilkScience #MeetOurTeam
January 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🔬 Meet Alec Bizieff, Ph.D., Staff Research Associate III at MAC!
With expertise in mass spectrometry & multi-omic analysis, Alec is advancing research on infant nutrition & maternal health by analyzing vitamins in human milk.
#HumanMilkScience #MeetOurTeam
With expertise in mass spectrometry & multi-omic analysis, Alec is advancing research on infant nutrition & maternal health by analyzing vitamins in human milk.
#HumanMilkScience #MeetOurTeam
🌟 Two months to #HMI25! 🌟
Join us March 4-6 for the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium!
💡 Explore the program, speakers, and more: https://buff.ly/3UN0QlV
💡 Add your name to the waitlist: https://buff.ly/3ULbR7f
Don’t miss out!
Learn more: https://hmi.ucsd.edu
Join us March 4-6 for the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium!
💡 Explore the program, speakers, and more: https://buff.ly/3UN0QlV
💡 Add your name to the waitlist: https://buff.ly/3ULbR7f
Don’t miss out!
Learn more: https://hmi.ucsd.edu
January 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🌟 Two months to #HMI25! 🌟
Join us March 4-6 for the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium!
💡 Explore the program, speakers, and more: https://buff.ly/3UN0QlV
💡 Add your name to the waitlist: https://buff.ly/3ULbR7f
Don’t miss out!
Learn more: https://hmi.ucsd.edu
Join us March 4-6 for the 3rd Annual Kohlberg Johnson Family Human Milk Institute Symposium!
💡 Explore the program, speakers, and more: https://buff.ly/3UN0QlV
💡 Add your name to the waitlist: https://buff.ly/3ULbR7f
Don’t miss out!
Learn more: https://hmi.ucsd.edu
🎉 Happy New Year from HMI! 🎉
Wishing you a 2025 filled with growth, discovery, and impactful collaborations. Together, let’s continue advancing human milk science and improving health for all! 💡✨
#HumanMilkScience #HappyNewYear #HMI
Wishing you a 2025 filled with growth, discovery, and impactful collaborations. Together, let’s continue advancing human milk science and improving health for all! 💡✨
#HumanMilkScience #HappyNewYear #HMI
December 30, 2024 at 8:22 PM
🎉 Happy New Year from HMI! 🎉
Wishing you a 2025 filled with growth, discovery, and impactful collaborations. Together, let’s continue advancing human milk science and improving health for all! 💡✨
#HumanMilkScience #HappyNewYear #HMI
Wishing you a 2025 filled with growth, discovery, and impactful collaborations. Together, let’s continue advancing human milk science and improving health for all! 💡✨
#HumanMilkScience #HappyNewYear #HMI
🎉 HMI’s 2024: Growth, collaboration & impact!
🔹 New cores, research incubators & team members
🔹 60+ abstracts for HMI’25 Symposium
📖 More: https://buff.ly/3PdbLlK
#HumanMilkScience #HMI #2024Recap
🔹 New cores, research incubators & team members
🔹 60+ abstracts for HMI’25 Symposium
📖 More: https://buff.ly/3PdbLlK
#HumanMilkScience #HMI #2024Recap
December 27, 2024 at 10:02 PM
🎉 HMI’s 2024: Growth, collaboration & impact!
🔹 New cores, research incubators & team members
🔹 60+ abstracts for HMI’25 Symposium
📖 More: https://buff.ly/3PdbLlK
#HumanMilkScience #HMI #2024Recap
🔹 New cores, research incubators & team members
🔹 60+ abstracts for HMI’25 Symposium
📖 More: https://buff.ly/3PdbLlK
#HumanMilkScience #HMI #2024Recap
🔬 Meet Simone Renwick, PhD 🌟 Postdoc at UCSD’s LRF MOMI CORE, explores how human milk components like HMOs and microbes shape infant gut microbiota. Her work combines advanced techniques to uncover milk’s role in infant health and development. 🌱
#HMI #MeetOurTeam
#HMI #MeetOurTeam
December 26, 2024 at 5:41 PM
🔬 Meet Simone Renwick, PhD 🌟 Postdoc at UCSD’s LRF MOMI CORE, explores how human milk components like HMOs and microbes shape infant gut microbiota. Her work combines advanced techniques to uncover milk’s role in infant health and development. 🌱
#HMI #MeetOurTeam
#HMI #MeetOurTeam
🎄 Wishing you a joyful holiday season and an impactful start to 2025!
We’re grateful for all the support from our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners in making 2024 a success. We’ve set HMI on a path toward programmatic and financial sustainability, which we’ll advance further in 2025!
We’re grateful for all the support from our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners in making 2024 a success. We’ve set HMI on a path toward programmatic and financial sustainability, which we’ll advance further in 2025!
December 24, 2024 at 9:41 AM
🎄 Wishing you a joyful holiday season and an impactful start to 2025!
We’re grateful for all the support from our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners in making 2024 a success. We’ve set HMI on a path toward programmatic and financial sustainability, which we’ll advance further in 2025!
We’re grateful for all the support from our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners in making 2024 a success. We’ve set HMI on a path toward programmatic and financial sustainability, which we’ll advance further in 2025!
🎄 Wishing you a joyful holiday season and an impactful start to 2025! We’re deeply grateful to our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners for making 2024 a success. HMI is progressing toward sustainable programs and finances, with plans to advance further in 2025!
December 24, 2024 at 3:04 AM
🎄 Wishing you a joyful holiday season and an impactful start to 2025! We’re deeply grateful to our faculty, students, collaborators, and partners for making 2024 a success. HMI is progressing toward sustainable programs and finances, with plans to advance further in 2025!
🔦 Spotlight Publication
Multidisciplinary Work of HMI Faculty at Its Best! 🌟
New research reveals the human milk oligosaccharide 3′-sialyllactose reduces low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis in mice.
Check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZyfsqY
#HumanMilkScience
Multidisciplinary Work of HMI Faculty at Its Best! 🌟
New research reveals the human milk oligosaccharide 3′-sialyllactose reduces low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis in mice.
Check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZyfsqY
#HumanMilkScience
December 18, 2024 at 9:41 AM
🔦 Spotlight Publication
Multidisciplinary Work of HMI Faculty at Its Best! 🌟
New research reveals the human milk oligosaccharide 3′-sialyllactose reduces low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis in mice.
Check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZyfsqY
#HumanMilkScience
Multidisciplinary Work of HMI Faculty at Its Best! 🌟
New research reveals the human milk oligosaccharide 3′-sialyllactose reduces low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis in mice.
Check it out! https://buff.ly/3ZyfsqY
#HumanMilkScience
Excited to announce that HMI has received a $150K grant from Kaiser Permanente! 🎉 In collaboration with UC San Diego Center for Community Health, we’re working to improve access to equitable lactation care and resources to address childhood obesity. #LactationCare #CommunityHealth #Grant
December 13, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Excited to announce that HMI has received a $150K grant from Kaiser Permanente! 🎉 In collaboration with UC San Diego Center for Community Health, we’re working to improve access to equitable lactation care and resources to address childhood obesity. #LactationCare #CommunityHealth #Grant
✨ The HMI Newsletter #6 is out! ✨
🔍 Catch a glimpse of what’s inside:
📅 2024 Highlights
🎉 Community Wins
📰 Symposium Updates
🌟 New Advisory Board
🌍 Global Research News
🏆 Faculty Achievements
📚 Fresh Publications
Subscribe for updates! 👉 https://buff.ly/3Vy5PY4
🔍 Catch a glimpse of what’s inside:
📅 2024 Highlights
🎉 Community Wins
📰 Symposium Updates
🌟 New Advisory Board
🌍 Global Research News
🏆 Faculty Achievements
📚 Fresh Publications
Subscribe for updates! 👉 https://buff.ly/3Vy5PY4
December 12, 2024 at 7:43 PM
✨ The HMI Newsletter #6 is out! ✨
🔍 Catch a glimpse of what’s inside:
📅 2024 Highlights
🎉 Community Wins
📰 Symposium Updates
🌟 New Advisory Board
🌍 Global Research News
🏆 Faculty Achievements
📚 Fresh Publications
Subscribe for updates! 👉 https://buff.ly/3Vy5PY4
🔍 Catch a glimpse of what’s inside:
📅 2024 Highlights
🎉 Community Wins
📰 Symposium Updates
🌟 New Advisory Board
🌍 Global Research News
🏆 Faculty Achievements
📚 Fresh Publications
Subscribe for updates! 👉 https://buff.ly/3Vy5PY4
🌅 HMI’25 Cocktail Sponsor: Ceres Chill
We will kick off HMI’25 with a Sunset Cocktail Reception, sponsored by
@CeresChill
! 🍹✨ Thank you to Ceres Chill & all our sponsors for their support.
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/3VxTt2l
🤝 Become a Sponsor: https://buff.ly/3VA92Xg
We will kick off HMI’25 with a Sunset Cocktail Reception, sponsored by
@CeresChill
! 🍹✨ Thank you to Ceres Chill & all our sponsors for their support.
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/3VxTt2l
🤝 Become a Sponsor: https://buff.ly/3VA92Xg
December 10, 2024 at 6:04 PM
🌅 HMI’25 Cocktail Sponsor: Ceres Chill
We will kick off HMI’25 with a Sunset Cocktail Reception, sponsored by
@CeresChill
! 🍹✨ Thank you to Ceres Chill & all our sponsors for their support.
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/3VxTt2l
🤝 Become a Sponsor: https://buff.ly/3VA92Xg
We will kick off HMI’25 with a Sunset Cocktail Reception, sponsored by
@CeresChill
! 🍹✨ Thank you to Ceres Chill & all our sponsors for their support.
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/3VxTt2l
🤝 Become a Sponsor: https://buff.ly/3VA92Xg