Healthy Aging Program

Head: Roza Adany, MD, PhD

Purpose

The Healthy Aging Program advances translational research aimed at extending healthspan through integrated biological, clinical, and population-level strategies. The program connects geroscience with intervention development, prevention frameworks, and policy-relevant implementation.

Why it matters

• Europe is undergoing rapid demographic aging with escalating burdens of cardiovascular disease, dementia, frailty, and cancer

• Preventable determinants of unhealthy aging remain insufficiently translated into scalable intervention frameworks.

• Bridging geroscience with real-world public health practice is essential to to sustain healthcare systems and preserve functional independence.

What we do

• Preclinical anti-aging research in preclinical models targeting vascular, metabolic, and neurobiological aging pathways

• Advanced transcriptomics and multi-omics pipelines for biomarker discovery and target identification

• Translational clinical studies focused on aging-related risk stratification and intervention testing

• Large-scale epidemiological analyses of determinants of healthy aging

• Cancer survival and aging interaction research

• Retinal epidemiology and vascular aging biomarkers

• Public health genomics and precision prevention

• Integration with the Fodor Center for Prevention and Healthy Aging (Semmelweis University)

• Support for the Semmelweis Study and the Semmelweis-EUniWell Workplace Health Promotion Program

• End-to-end research support: study design, analytics, implementation, and policy translation

Key outputs

• Selected publications (curated list)

• Translational datasets

• Participation in research consortia

• Evidence frameworks for prevention programs

People

• Program Head: Roza Adany, MD, PhD

• Key collaborators: Adam Tabak, MD, PhD,  Stefano Tarantini, PhD, Balazs Gyorffy, MD, PhD, Tamas Csipo, MD, Agnes Lipecz MD, Agnes Szappanos MD, Peter Piko PhD, Monika Fekete MD, PhD, Vince Fazekas-Pongor, MD, PhD, David Major, MD, PhD, Hajnalka Andrikovics, MD, PhD , Tamas Kiss, MD, PhD, Dorina Nagy PhD

Collaborate

• We actively build European research consortia and welcome academic, clinical, and public health partners for Horizon proposals and joint initiatives.