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Breastfeeding MedicineVol. 14, No. S1 Proceedings from the 6th Annual International Conference on Human Milk Science and InnovationOpen AccessCreative Commons licenseHuman Milk Science and Innovation ConferenceArthur I. EidelmanArthur I. Eidelman—Arthur I. Eidelman, MD, Editor-in-ChiefSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:12 Apr 2019https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2019.29123.aieAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Breastfeeding Medicine, the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, is once again honored and most pleased to publish the proceedings of the sixth Annual International Conference on “Human Milk Science and Innovation,” sponsored and supported by Prolacta Bioscience. This annual conference continues to serve as a major platform for the presentation both of the data from the most up-to-date research in the biology of human lactation and the outcome of clinical research programs that focus on the care and welfare of the maternal–infant dyad.The proceedings, as in previous years, are guest edited by William D. Rhine, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology) of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, and Lars Bode, PhD, from the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, University of California, San Diego, California.Presentations were from leading international experts from a wide variety of academic specialties. A special feature was the emphasis on the long-term health benefits of breastfeeding, both to the infant and the mother. The relationship of breastfeeding and the infant's microbiome was highlighted by more than one speaker.The conference also was the setting of the awarding Ruth A. Lawrence Investigator Award for Research in Human Milk Science to Steven D. Townsend, PhD, for his research on the effect of the ingestion of human milk oligosaccharides as a basic defense mechanism against pathogens The award honored both Dr. Townsend for his current academic achievements and Dr. Lawrence for her pioneering activities in the development and support of the study of the science of breastfeeding and human lactation. Dr. Lawrence was the founding editor of Breastfeeding Medicine some 14 years ago, so it is most appropriate that the award in her name be properly highlighted in the pages of Breastfeeding Medicine, an endeavor most dear to her professional career.Special thanks to Prolacta Bioscience for hosting the conference in September 2018 and in facilitating the publishing of the edited proceedings in Breastfeeding Medicine.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 14Issue S1Apr 2019 Information© Arthur I. Eidelman, 2019; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.To cite this article:Arthur I. Eidelman.Human Milk Science and Innovation Conference.Breastfeeding Medicine.Apr 2019.S-1-S-1.http://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2019.29123.aiecreative commons licensePublished in Volume: 14 Issue S1: April 12, 2019Open accessThis Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.PDF download