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".

According to a study published by Professor Zsolt Radák and his colleagues in Springer Nature Link, Olympic champions exhibit slower epigenetic aging than non-elite athletes.

Five-time Hungarian Olympic champion gymnast, former member of the university’s sports club, TFSE, and the university’s late teacher, Ágnes Keleti, who passed away at the age of 103, was buried in Budapest on Thursday according to the Jewish tradition.

The Hungarian five-time Olympic champion gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in the second world war, has died at the age of 103, the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) said.