The OCEHL director, Prof Fadil Hannan joined leading thinkers from around the world last week in London to discuss healthcare challenges and the use of cutting-edge technologies to address these.
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LRF OCEHL Director, Prof Fadil Hannan has led the publication of a collaborative article in Nature Reviews Endocrinology.
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A £9.12 million gift from the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation has endowed an Oxford University research centre investigating the role of hormones in human milk production.
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A lot happens to each of the samples that we take - read our post to follow the journey!
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The LRF OCEHL team participated in the 2nd Global Human Milk Research Consortium (GHMRC) meeting at UC San Diego in March 2024.
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Prof Fadil Hannan has been awarded the 2023 Clinical Endocrinology Journal Foundation Lecture.
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LRF OCEHL is excited to be involved in a 5 year project investigating the impact of extreme heat exposure on pregnancy and lactation in women across India.
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If you live in Oxfordshire and have attempted breastfeeding in the last two years would you like to complete our survey?
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The INSIGHT study continues to go from strength to strength! Following the completion of a successful pilot phase earlier this year we have now transitioned into the main study.
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The Global Human Milk Research Consortium (GHMRC) recently gathered in Oxford at the start of September to share exciting science, exchange ideas and chart future steps.
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Congratulations to Taha Elajnaf. He has been awarded a Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump-Priming grant worth £10,000.
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We are delighted to announce that Xin Meng has been awarded a prestigious early career grant worth £9,631 from the Society for Endocrinology.
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Congratulations to Xin Meng (postdoctoral researcher) and Hussam Rostom (DPhil student) who both gave oral presentations at the ENDO 2023 meeting in Chicago, June 2023.
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The Nectar Study has recently been extended in order to develop new imaging and cell research methods for understanding the biology of lactation.
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Mitochondria are commonly understood to be the powerhouses for cells and in the mammary gland they provide energy needed to produce milk. Our team are imaging mitochondria to understand exactly how energy is produced for lactation.
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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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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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