CHUN LI, PH.D.

Assistant Director for Education

Chun Li, Ph.D. is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.  He has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in sta­tis­ti­cal genet­ics research and genetic data analy­sis.  He is cur­rently work­ing on devel­op­ing meth­ods for detect­ing somatic changes using next-generation sequenc­ing data.  He is also inter­ested in devel­op­ing meth­ods to effi­ciently mine elec­tronic med­ical records.  Active in col­lab­o­ra­tive research, he has been work­ing with inves­ti­ga­tors in var­i­ous fields such as can­cer epi­demi­ol­ogy, clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­ogy, oph­thal­mol­ogy, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, autism, type 2 dia­betes, etc.  He has pub­lished in Nature Genet­ics, New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, Blood, Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Human Genet­ics, Bioinformatics, etc.

Affiliations

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Recent Publications

  1. Chun, WB, Chernov, ES, Chen, K, Nguyen, SA, Marrero-Gonzalez, AR, Stevens, MN, Drawdy, AV, Kejner, AE. Sex and survival in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41353055 .
  2. Tong, Z, Jia-Qin, F, Xiong, F, Ping-Ping, W, Chun, W, Yu-Xuan, F, Chun, C. Self-assembled nanoparticles from sugarcane polyphenol compounds for enhanced antioxidant activity and in vivo absorption. Food Res Int 2026; 223 (Pt 1): 117847. PubMed PMID:41352792 .
  3. Gunawardene, MA, Schmidt, B, Julian Chun, KR. Cold front hits southern India: Cryoballoon AF ablation reaches India's tip. Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41352561 .
  4. Zhou, H, Huang, Z, Yang, S, Chen, F, Cao, X, Qian, W, Duan, D, Chen, CC. Effects of polyethylene and polystyrene microplastics on bioaccumulation and toxicity of dibutyl phthalate in Mytilisepta virgata. Mar Pollut Bull 2025; 224 : 119084. PubMed PMID:41352241 .
  5. Kwan, RYC, Su, JJ, Lee, JLC, Ng, F, Lai, M, Lei, C, Chan, S. The effects of a therapeutic immersive virtual reality programme on the mental health of residential care home residents living with physical disabilities: A multi-centre randomised controlled trial. Int J Nurs Stud 2025; 174 : 105307. PubMed PMID:41349267 .
  6. Zhang, X, Burkhanova, D, Yang, Y, Tian, J. Political participation and grassroots governance: A social work perspective based on CGSS 2021 data. PLoS One 2025; 20 (12): e0337520. PubMed PMID:41348713 PubMed Central PMC12680219.
  7. Han, Y, Cui, Y, Chen, Y, Rao, D, Wu, E, Gan, R, Li, T, Tian, M. High-density genetic map construction using whole-genome resequencing of the Cymbidium eburneum('Duzhan Chun') × Cymbidium insigne ('Meihua Lan') F1 population and localization of flower color genes. Front Plant Sci 2025; 16 : 1685531. PubMed PMID:41346827 PubMed Central PMC12673568.
  8. Vu, KL, Ramos, H, Chun, CA, Marayong, P, Dillon, J. Examining the Role of Conference Participation to Enhance Research Self-Efficacy and Science Identity of Undergraduates in a Research Training Program. Appl Hum Factors Ergon Conf 2025; 199 : 1321-1331. PubMed PMID:41346479 PubMed Central PMC12674632.
  9. Zhang, D, An, S, Dong, X, Liu, X. The long-term trends in the disease burden of acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in China from 1990 to 2021 and projections for the next 15 years. Cancer Treat Res Commun 2025; 45 : 101047. PubMed PMID:41343902 .
  10. Lee, JD, Chun, E, Chang, CH, Hou, H, Liu, T, Dunn, RL, McCullough, JS, Thompson, MP, Ellimoottil, C. The volume of outpatient office visits did not increase for specialties that were more likely to adopt telehealth. Health Aff Sch 2025; 3 (12): qxaf227. PubMed PMID:41341665 PubMed Central PMC12672024.
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