Research leader name
Dr. János Sándor
The MTA-DE Research Group funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences started to operate by the year of 2007. Its mission is to investigate and explore the health and health behavior of the Hungarian population (including Roma) in international comparison. The aim is to identify the main public health problems and their background, as well as the evidence-based interventions applicable to solve or at least mitigate them.
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Main (research) activities
- identification and characterization of health determinants (especially nutritional and health behaviour factors) behind the early death of the Hungarian population
- Socio-economical inequalities and anomalies in preventive medication in the background of premature mortality caused by diseases with high public health importance
- Epidemiological characterization (morbidity and mortality burden) of cardiometabolic diseases with special focus on cardiovascular diseases and diabetes
- Genetic susceptibility of the Hungarian general and Roma populations to different non-communicable diseases using the methodological arsenal of public health genomics
- Studying genomic alterations associated with progression of malignant diseases
- Investigating molecular background of drug-resistance in therapy of malignancies
