<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/10-07/05-breakthrough-to-boost-breastfeeding.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories>Research</categories><pubDate>10/07/2025 04:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Breakthrough to Boost Breastfeeding Success</title><sub-title/><description>Congratulations to Thomas Wallach, M.D., Assistant Professor, Research Director, and Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Suzanna L. Attia, M.D., Kentucky Children’s Hospital, on their $2.5 million NIH R01 Research Project Grant to lead a Brooklyn-based clinical trial testing the potential of Moringa Oleifera to support mothers and infants worldwide. Downstate will receive $894,000 of the award, and Dr. Wallach and his team will conduct the trial on campus.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/faculty/pediatrics/_images/wallach.png" alt="Thomas Wallach"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/10-07/05-breakthrough-to-boost-breastfeeding.xml</loc><tags><tag>Research</tag></tags><categories><category>Research</category></categories></item>