5TH INTERNATIONAL DONOR MILK RESEARCH CONGRESS

Final Programme:
• 08:50 – Clair-Yves BOQUIEN, Nadia Raquel GARCIA LARA. Welcome and opening remarks
An update of our recent activities. Moderator : Guido MORO
• 09:00 – Sertac ARSLANOGLU. Update on the IMAGINE-HMB project
• 10:00 – Clair-Yves BOQUIEN. Update on the Implement SOHO project
• 10:30 – Working groups (6 minutes + 4 minutes discussion each):
Aleksandra WESOLOWSKA. SOHO Implementation
Tanya CASSIDY. Social, Cultural and Ethics Working Group
Gillian WEAVER. The Impact of maternal diet on donor milk composition

• 11:00 – Coffee break

Invited lecture
• 11:30 – Julia KULIGOWSKI. From Bench to Baby – Advanced Analytics for Tailoring Donor Human Milk for Preterm Infants

• 12:00 – Short oral communications (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion each)
Moderators: Jean-Charles PICAUD, Enrico BERTINO
Erika RIGOTTI. Standardizing Human Milk Banking Procedures Across a Regional Network: The Veneto Model for Quality Assurance and SoHO Readiness
Corinna GEBAUER. Prioritization of Donor Human Milk Across Human Milk Banks Worldwide: Practice, Recording, and Implications for Traceability
An EERDEKENS. Building a National Human Milk Banking Network in Belgium: Lessons Learned from the First Two Years of Implementation
Aleksandra MOLAS. National Trends and Regional Disparities in Exclusive Tube Feeding with Human Milk versus Formula among Hospitalized Infants in Poland, 2018–2025

13:00 – Lunch break

• 14:00 – Oral communications (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion each)
Moderators: Daniel KLOTZ, Serena GANDINO
Vilma IVANAUSKIENE. Mother’s Own Milk, Donor Human Milk, and Gut Microbiota in Very-Low-Birth-Weight (VLBW) Preterm Infants: A Longitudinal Study of Microbial Dynamics and Neonatal Outcomes

Betina SOLDATELI. Association between type of feeding and very preterm infants’ growth at hospital discharge: a multi-center study in 12 Brazilian NICUs (2012–2020)
Niels ROCHOW. Development of a Lyophilized Human Milk–Based Fortifier to Improve Feeding Tolerance and Growth in Preterm Infants Born Before 32 Weeks of Gestation
Līva AUMEISTERE. A Decade of Human Milk Research in Latvia: Evidence for Maternal Diet as a Determinant of Human Milk Composition
Moderator: Gabriela OLEDZKA
David LEMBO. Human Milk Antiviral Activity Is Enhanced by Digestion: Evidence from Human Digestomics
Alessandro ROLFO. Human Milk-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Candidate Therapeutic Strategy for Necrotizing Enterocolitis: In-Vitro Evidences
Katarzyna WSZOLEK. Cellular Diversity of Human Colostrum: A Cytomorphological Study
Nadia Raquel GARCIA LARA. Monitoring Antibiotic Residues in Donor Human Milk Using a Validated Multi-Residue LC-MS/MS Method
• 16:00 – EMBA General Assembly
• 17:00 – Closing remarks