He organized the First International Congress on Nutrition and Cancer in Antalya, Turkey in May 2008. Kucuk comes to Emory from the Karmanos Cancer Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was a professor and co-leader of the population sciences and prevention program and member of genitourinary and head and neck cancer multidisciplinary groups. Kucuk has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, review articles and book chapters to his credit, and he is on the editorial boards of numerous publications, including the Cancer Detection and Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

Kucuk, who speaks Turkish, was the only child of a family of tobacco farmers from a small town, Akhisar, in Western Turkey. Kucuk moved to the United States in 1975 after graduating from Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara, Turkey. Also, Emory Healthcare does not endorse or recommend any specific commercial product or service.
He has been conducting clinical trials with lycopene and soy isoflavones in combination with standard therapy for prostate cancer since 1996. Our current investigations focus on the effects of micronutrients and phytochemicals on biomarkers of cell growth, differentiation, inflammation and oxidative stress in a variety of cancers. He reported that lycopene and soy isoflavones have efficacy in patients with hormone-naïve as well as hormone-refractory prostate cancer. He was also the first to report that dietary lycopene intake prevents leiomyoma in the Japanese quail in collaboration with veterinary researchers at Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
He has published extensively on various nutrients in combination with chemotherapy and radiation. His grandparents, also tobacco farmers, came to Akhisar from Drama, Greece, after the First World War. He became interested in cancer prevention in 1984, when he first discovered that oxidation products of cholesterol have profound effects in cell mediated immunity, at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois. This Web site is provided solely for personal and private use of individuals accessing this information, and no part of it may be used for any other purpose. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu between 1991 and 1995 where he continued to work on diet and cancer and reported for the first time that dietary intake of antioxidant micronutrients prevent mutagen sensitivity of blood lymphocytes.

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