Funding

K99 HD107496 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Harnessing Cells from Human Milk: Linking Lactation to Metabolism (PI: Martin Carli)
2022/08-2027/07
The K99 stage of this award supports the recruitment of women with gestational diabetes or normoglycemia to identify effects of insulin resistance on mammary epithelial insulin signaling.

Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research Early Career Faculty Research Development Award      
Harnessing Cells from Human Milk: Linking Lactation to Body Weight (PI: Martin Carli)
2022/09 – 2024/08
This award supports the addition of a study arm that includes normal weight women to compare with the group with overweight/obesity from the K99 project to identify the effects of maternal obesity on mammary epithelial cell signatures and lactation outcomes​ 

1R01HD117769-01  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development            

Investigating the Role of Lipid Droplet Docking in Lactation Initiation and Milk Secretion (PI: Monks)

07/24/2025-03/31/2030

This project elucidates the cellular and molecular order of events in milk secretion postpartum, determines factors which regulate it and directly investigates how obesity, a major cause of lactation failure, alters lactation.