University of California, San Diego (Professor of Pediatrics; Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research; Director of the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence)
Master of Science and PhD degree in Nutritional Sciences from the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Fellowship at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom.
Postdoctoral fellowship at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California
Dedicated to research on breastfeeding and human milk in general and Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) in particular. He had secured more than $30M in research funding
Recipient of numerous International Awards and have published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, including the 2012 review “Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Every Baby Needs a Sugar Mama”, which has become the most cited research article in the field of HMOs.
