# research

The secret to a long life is regular physical exercise – this is how you can simply summarize the findings of a unique study led by Professor Zsolt Radák, Director of the Research Centre for Molecular Exercise Science and Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation at Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS).

A review article related to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction written by research professor Tibor Hortobágyi and his colleagues has appeared in the journal Sports Medicine Open.

Lactic acid alters DNA methylation, gene expression, and protein synthesis. In short, this is the essence of the groundbreaking observation recently published by Professor Zsolt Radák and his research team in the journal Redox Biology.

One of the top lecturers at Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS), Vice Rector for Innovation and Science, Professor Zsolt Radák has been ranked among the world's leading scientists by Elsevier.

In recent days, an interesting article was published in the journal Vaccines on the adverse side effects of mRNA-LNP-based COVID-19 vaccines, specifically Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty and Moderna-Spikevax, by Professor János Szebeni and Professor Ákos Koller, the Chairman of Hungarian University of Sports Science’s (HUSS) Scientific Council.

A new study involving researchers from Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS) has been published in Sports, an international journal with a Q1 ranking and an impact factor of 2.9. The article investigates the relationship between external and internal load indicators among elite youth soccer players.

The study titled “Novel, Sport-Specific EMG-Based Method to Evaluate Movement Efficiency in Karate Punching” was recently published in the prestigious Q1-ranked journal Sports (impact factor: 2.9), the result of exemplary collaboration among three departments of Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS).

The April 2024 study published by the Hungarian University of Sports Science’s (HUSS) Research Centre for Molecular Exercise Science led by Professor Zsolt Radák, earned a shared second-place Best Scientific Paper award from the Anatomical Society of the United Kingdom, founded in 1887.

Here is the great opportunity for young researchers, including those from the Hungarian University of Sports Science (TF).

Eszter Pocsai, a PhD student at the Hungarian University of Sports Science (TF), gained important experience at the LISiN Laboratory in Turin.

Professor Zsolt Radák, Head of the Centre for Molecular Exercise Biology, has successfully applied for funds provided by the ADVANCED grant programme of the National Research Excellence Programme with the research project titled "The effect of lactic acid and exercise on DNA methylation and epigenetics".

A publication award of GeroScience, a renowned American academic journal on ageing, was given to Professor Zsolt Radák, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation.

Toni Arndt will hold a lecture on advanced footwear technology and its performance enhancing effects at the Hungarian University of Sports Science (TF) on 28 June. 

A new research finding of a Spanish research group supports the neurogenic theory of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) that was put forward by Dr Balázs Sonkodi, senior research associate of the Hungarian University of Sports Science.

At the 2024 American Physiology Summit to be organised in Long Beach in April, researchers from the Hungarian University of Sports Science will present topics closely related to elite sport.

Professor Honoris Causa Tibor Hortobágyi, PhD, research professor, Department of Kinesiology, published a review as a senior author of an international consortium comprising 10 authors from five countries.

Ákos Koller, Professor Emeritus of the Hungarian University of Sports Science, has received the Eugene M. Landis Research Award in Rhode Island, USA.

Dr habil Miklós Bánhidi, supervisor of the School of Sport Sciences at the Hungarian University of Sports Science (HUSS) and his student Leny Keo recently paid a scientific visit to Cambodia.

Dr. Ákos Koller, professor oat the Hungarian University of Sports Sciences has received an important recognition. This year he was awarded the Eugene M. Landis Research Award given by the American Microcirculatory Society.

Dr Tibor Barna, retired Associate Professor of the Hungarian University of Sports Sciences (HUSS) presented the results of a research lasting for two years in Belgrade this September.

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