In California, the Switzerland-based Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation made a $10.5 million gift to the University of California San Diego to empower researchers to unravel the intricacies of human milk. Breast milk is known to provide the best nutrition for newborns and infants; but the complete composition of human milk and what makes it so beneficial is still largely unknown.
UCSD is the home to one of the world’s only centers dedicated to human milk research and the gift provides seed funding for the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence at UCSD. The center will provide further evidence-based understanding of how genetic and environmental factors affect milk composition, and how human milk affects health across the life span.
The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation gift includes seed funding for the center, an endowed faculty chair in collaborative human milk research and a collaboration and fellow fund to seed and promote collaborative studies.