The LRF OCEHL team have just published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology an article summarising what is currently known about the role of hormones in mammary gland development and functions.
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The INSIGHT study continues to recruit well and has run smoothly over the summer, thanks to the help and generosity of our participants! In August, we reached the exciting milestone of recruiting our 100th participant!
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We are delighted to announce that the ‘Protocol for an observational study investigating hormones triggering the onset of sustained lactation: the INSIGHT study’ has been published by BMJ Open.
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LRF OCEHL is now part of the Global Human Milk Research Consortium (GHMRC) consisting of five independent research centres, based at renowned universities, and endowed by the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation.
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Congratulations to our DPhil Researcher Hussam Rostom! He has been awarded a Bioscientifica Trust Grant worth £5,000.
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We are delighted to announce that the INSIGHT Study pilot phase has now been completed and we are able to move on to the main project. Read on for the full update…
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We are looking for postdoctoral researchers to work on two interdisciplinary collaborative research projects with the universities of Zurich and California.
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Congratulations to our Postdoc researcher Taha Elajnaf! who has been awarded an early career grant of £9760 from the Society for Endocrinology (SfE).
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Our team are recruiting women who are planning to breastfeed to a new study looking at the hormones driving lactation.
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Listen to Director Prof. Fadil Hannan explaining the work of LRF OCEHL and Helen Price, Research Midwife introducing the centre’s clinical studies.
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We are delighted to say that our NECTAR study has now reached its recruitment target. Thank you so much to the 30 mums in the Oxford Newborn Care Unit who donated breastmilk samples.
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To mark World Breastfeeding Week LRF OCEHL will be taking over the Departmental Twitter account to share some of our exciting research on lactation.
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Dr Taha Elajnaf has been awarded a grant from the Bioscientifica Trust. These funds will enable an investigation into the role of resistin in milk synthesis and tight junction formation in cellular models of lactation.
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We are delighted to announce that the Nectar study has now begun. This study aims to assess the suitability of different lab methods for measuring breast milk hormones and other factors.
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Dr Xin Meng has been awarded £2000 from the Bioscientifica Trust for a study entitled “Role of adiponectin receptor in mammary gland mitochondrial biogenesis”.
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Juho Asteljoki has been awarded a small grant of £1940 from the Bioscientifica Trust to study cellular models of lactation.
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The University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) and the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation (FLRF) are working in partnership to launch critical research into breastmilk and COVID-19.
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We are looking for mothers in the Oxfordshire area willing to donate a small sample of milk (approx. 10ml) in order for us to establish the best methods for testing hormones and other biological factors.
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Drs Elajnaf and Meng are starting as postdoctoral researchers in early 2020.
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Dr Fadil Hannan was awarded for the Best Basic Science Abstract by the Society for Endocrinology (SFE)
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