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. Pan, M, Sun, J, Kawashima, M, Kim, YC, Chun, M, Chu, CY, Liang, YH, Chang, M, Kerob, D, Dreno, B et al.. Managing Skin Side Effects Associated With Oncology Treatments: Asian Perspective on Use of Dermocosmetics. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41578116 .
  2. Tong, Z, Jia-Jiong, L, Xiong, F, Ping-Ping, W, Hai-Ming, C, Chun, C. Key structural characteristics enhancing digestion resistance in rice starch-sugarcane polyphenols complexes. Food Chem 2026; 505 : 148040. PubMed PMID:41576458 .
  3. Fu, Y, Bai, X, Chun, L, Xu, XZS, Liu, J. A C. elegans model of copper deficiency: Dietary interventions rescue CTR1/CHCA-1 copper transporter mutant phenotype. PLoS Genet 2026; 22 (1): e1012013. PubMed PMID:41575937 .
  4. Chun, TH, Minneci, PC. Nonoperative Management of Uncomplicated Appendicitis: The Elephant in the (Emergency) Room? Ann Emerg Med 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41575402 .
  5. Zhou, J, Li, B, Sun, T, Li, D, Huang, C, Gao, H, Ren, J, Zhuang, Y, Xue, S, Xiao, Q et al.. Machine learning and Shapley Additive exPlanations to predict metastasis of lymph nodes posterior to the recurrent laryngeal nerve in cN0 papillary thyroid carcinoma. Front Oncol 2025; 15 : 1673332. PubMed PMID:41573651 PubMed Central PMC12819197.
  6. Lee, H, Cui, M, Lee, B, Myung, J, Chun, C. Anatomy and physiology of strawberry flowers determine fruit set. Plant Physiol Biochem 2026; 231 : 111057. PubMed PMID:41570633 .
  7. Quarta, L, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Filzmayer, M, Lee, NJ, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Ferro, M, Chun, FKH et al.. Effect of Marital Status on Years of Life Lost From Metastatic Prostate Cancer According to Race/Ethnicity. Prostate 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41570161 .
  8. Cheng, S, Chun, I, Lew, R, Abella, M, Ishikawa, K, Ahn, HJ, Wai, C. Prolonged Postoperative Ileus Following Elective Colectomy: A 2014-2019 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf 2025; 84 (11): 232-242. PubMed PMID:41567653 PubMed Central PMC12818475.
  9. Chun, U, Abdel-Aty, M, Wang, Z. When does visual distraction become dangerous in car-following? Evidence from naturalistic driving study data with causal inference on time-to-collision and braking intensity. Accid Anal Prev 2026; 228 : 108404. PubMed PMID:41564451 .
  10. Karakasis, P, Tzeis, S, Pamporis, K, Vlachos, K, Siontis, KC, Antoniadis, AP, Benali, K, Theofilis, P, Tsiachris, D, Chun, JKR et al.. Safety and efficacy of intracardiac echocardiography in atrial fibrillation ablation: A meta-analysis. Europace 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41563860 .
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