Prof. Ömer Küçük
Prof. Ömer Küçük, M.D.
Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Urology
Co-Leader, Prostate Cancer Program; Co-Director, Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Working Group
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
He earned his MD at Hacettepe University Medical School (1975) and completed residency and hematology-oncology fellowships at St. Francis Hospital (Evanston) and Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago). His expertise is chemoprevention, nutrition and cancer—especially genitourinary cancers with a focus on prostate cancer—including translational research on botanicals such as lycopene and soy isoflavones for prevention, treatment support, and reducing chemo/radiation toxicities.
He conducted early clinical trials of lycopene and soy isoflavones in prostate cancer and reported their epigenetic effects in randomized trials. He has held professorships at Northwestern, Chicago Medical School, University of Hawaii, Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute, and since 2008 at Emory University (Hematology/Medical Oncology and Urology). Honors include Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, Mark Bieber Award, and service on Society for Integrative Oncology boards/committees and NCI grant review panels.