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.

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Recent Publications

  1. Gunawardene, MA, Urbani, A, Urbanek, L, Marx, JA, Kheir, J, Lurz, J, Rocchetti, M, Schaack, D, Chun, KRJ, Schmidt, B et al.. The Pear Strategy for Two-Ring Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Antral and Sleeve Ablation Using a Balloon-in-Basket Pulsed Field Ablation Catheter. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42702070 .
  2. Wang, X, Sun, Q, Zhang, Y, Wang, Y, Cai, L, Wang, Z. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Sleep Disorders: Emerging Evidence and Future Directions. Nat Sci Sleep 2026; 18 : 630809. PubMed PMID:42701359 PubMed Central PMC13545341.
  3. Lee, D, Kim, B, Jung, KW, Nam, GE, Rhee, SY, Kim, S, Chun, S, Cho, IY, Han, K, Shin, DW et al.. Low muscle mass, obesity, and cause-specific mortality in cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study. Cancer Causes Control 2026; 37 (10): . PubMed PMID:42700202 .
  4. Lee, EB, Chun, YW, Seo, JP. Pulmonary cryptococcosis with an endobronchial cryptococcoma in a Warmblood mare. Can Vet J 2026; 67 (9): 970-975. PubMed PMID:42699316 PubMed Central PMC13544533.
  5. Kurasawa, Y, Zhou, Q, Lee, KJ, Hu, H, Li, Z. Polo-like kinase phosphorylation of the orphan kinesin KIN-G negatively regulates centrin arm biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei. Elife 2026; 15 : . PubMed PMID:42696466 PubMed Central PMC13544905.
  6. Gu, J, Yang, Y, Guo, H, Zhao, Y, Chun, Y, Bao, S. Differential metabolites and key pathways in quinoa rhizosphere responding to salt stress: implications for salt tolerance. BMC Plant Biol 2026; 26 (1): . PubMed PMID:42693405 PubMed Central PMC13539800.
  7. Chun, S, Nam, H, Lee, D, Lee, Y, Park, CH, Lim, C, Kim, D, Park, JS, Kim, KP, Choi, HS et al.. Photochemistry-Based Development of Ionizable Lipid Library for mRNA-Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery In Vivo. J Am Chem Soc 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42690843 .
  8. Pulcini, CD, Chun, TH, Race, JA, Neville, DN, Green, RS, Handel, AS, Coyle, CE, Aronson, PL, Thompson, AD, Sood, SK et al.. Informed Consent for Pediatric Lyme Meningitis Study: In-Person Versus Remote Approach. Acad Emerg Med 2026; 33 (9): e70400. PubMed PMID:42690545 PubMed Central PMC13540758.
  9. Lee, S, Cho, MS, Kang, DY, Ahn, JM, Lee, JB, Park, HS, An, SY, Wee, SB, Seo, KW, Oh, YS et al.. Edoxaban Antithrombotic Therapy in Diabetic Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Stable Coronary Artery Disease: The EPIC-CAD Trial. Europace 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42690164 .
  10. Jiang, H, Shao, X, Jiang, L, Zhang, T. Association of physical activity with arterial stiffness: the mediating role of the visceral fat metabolism score. Arch Endocrinol Metab 2026; 70 (5): e260094. PubMed PMID:42690012 PubMed Central PMC13476012.
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