Valerie Verhasselt

Professor Valerie Verhasselt has been holding the Larsson-Rosenquist Chair in Human Lactology at the University of Western Australia since August 2017. Her translational research is aimed at understanding how maternal milk impacts on immune development, education and long term homeostasis. A major objective guiding her work is the identification of factors which could endow breastfeeding with the capacity to prevent allergic and metabolic disease as potently as it does for infectious disease.