Biography:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can Kucuk completed his Ph.D. studies on oncology and cancer biology at The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He performed post-doctoral studies at UNMC and City of Hope Medical Center. Dr. Kucuk has publications in high impact journals such as Nature Communications, Blood, or PNAS. He earned prestigious international awards from the American Society of Hematology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Kucuk's research focuses on genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic aberrations causing lymphoid cancers to identify biomarkers that can improve diagnosis or prognostication of lymphoid cancers and to discover more effective therapeutic targets.