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. Zhao, J, Zhang, S, Gao, D, Xie, L, Wang, Y, Peng, D. Subchronic diethyl phthalate exposure aggravates Alzheimer-like phenotypes in 5XFAD mice: partial attenuation by Akt activation. Brain Res Bull 2026; : 112116. PubMed PMID:42716316 .
  2. Nguyen, V, Stutsky, M, Kubiak, S, Perkins, RC, Periyasamy, S, Chun, YC. Impact of an Integrated Health System Specialty Pharmacy on Clinical and Operational Outcomes in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42712198 .
  3. Kim, MJ, Jang, HJ, Kang, JS, Chun, SW, Chung, SG, Ju, S, Min, B, Kim, E, Kwak, JY, Kim, JW et al.. N-terminal thrombospondin-1 enhances muscle function and tissue-specific metabolic adaptation in response to exercise and cold exposure. Exp Mol Med 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42711398 .
  4. Madi, M, Haddad, A, Yousef, M, Ito, K, Wang, Y, Tomita, K, Arvide, EM, Newhook, TE, Tran Cao, HS, Chun, YS et al.. Early acute kidney injury is associated with extended length of stay and major complications after curative-intent hepatectomy. Surgery 2026; 199 : 110532. PubMed PMID:42710257 .
  5. Büttner, T, Wenzel, M, Mandel, P, Schmitt, P, Hoffmann, C, Marinova, M, Essler, M, Chun, FKH, Ritter, M, Groener, D et al.. External validation of the bellmunt risk score for survival prediction in mCRPC patients undergoing [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 therapy. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42709068 .
  6. Chai, ESX, Lim, DZJ, Zhao, X, Tan, FNSY, Chun, YY, Tan, Y, Tan, TTY, Tey, HL. A double-blinded randomized controlled pilot study evaluating the efficacy of siRNA inhibiting SPARC microneedle patch versus siRNA inhibiting SPARC and IL4-RA microneedle patch in reducing scar volume. Br J Dermatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42706910 .
  7. Lee, NJ, Polverino, F, Quarta, L, Filzmayer, M, Petix, M, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G, Chun, FKH, Briganti, A et al.. Contemporary Trends in Primary Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors. Eur Urol Focus 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42705957 .
  8. Kleber, TJ, Copling, SA, Kim, AD, Márquez, CP, Dong, W, Rinsurongkawong, W, Rinsurongkawong, V, Lee, JJ, Kitsel, Y, Han, X et al.. Using Induction Chemoimmunotherapy as a Bridge to Definitive Local Therapy for Non-Metastatic NSCLC: Real-World Outcomes From a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Clin Lung Cancer 2026; 27 (8): 22-32. PubMed PMID:42704953 .
  9. Siech, C, de Angelis, M, Jannello, LMI, Di Bello, F, Peñaranda, NR, Goyal, JA, Saad, F, Shariat, SF, Micali, S, Longo, N et al.. ASO Visual Abstract: Cancer-Specific Mortality in Rare Histologic Subtypes of Prostate Cancer: Radical Prostatectomy Versus Radiation Therapy. Ann Surg Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42704566 .
  10. Lee, SJ, Jee, Y, Chun, HS, Shin, HY. Cancer Risk Among Young Adults With Clinically Diagnosed Fatty Liver Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea. Cancer Med 2026; 15 (9): e72187. PubMed PMID:42702953 PubMed Central PMC13547832.
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