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. Wenzel, M, Theissen, L, Siech, C, Lauer, B, Winkler, S, Filzmayer, M, Le, C, Humke, C, Kriegmair, M, Steuber, T et al.. Impact of number of bone metastases on cancer control outcomes in mHSPC, independent of the axial-skeleton CHAARTED definition. Urol Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42436101 .
  2. Chen, HY, Wu, JY, Chu, YH, Chen, TW, Huang, CF. Lower fall and femoral fracture risks with semaglutide and tirzepatide compared with DPP-4 inhibitors in older adults with type 2 diabetes. Osteoporos Int 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42435064 .
  3. Chun, KP, Aragão, L, Olmo, ME, Nguyen, VD, Risanto, CB, Bettolli, ML, Ezber, Y, Toker, E, Varotsos, KV. New horizons in statistical downscaling and AI approaches for sustainable km-scale climate simulations. NPJ Clim Atmos Sci 2026; 9 (1): 151. PubMed PMID:42428801 PubMed Central PMC13345914.
  4. Belay, SG, Elias, EE, Lau, A, Andonegui, G, Chapman, K, Chun, J, Muruve, DA. GATA6 marks fibrosis-associated stromal cells rather than repair macrophages in kidney disease. Sci Rep 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42426262 .
  5. Jee, Y, Lee, SJ, Chun, HS, Shin, HY. Smoking and Risk of Hepatic Steatosis Within the MASLD Spectrum in Korean Young Adults. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42425542 .
  6. Liu, Y, Jadhav, AS, Pan, Y, Liao, J, Khanduri, I, Liu, Y, Katkhuda, R, Lu, W, Cho, KS, Tong, Z et al.. Spatial multi-omics landscape of colorectal cancer macro- and micrometastases. Cancer Cell 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42425074 .
  7. Hu, JJ, Ding, ZL, Yang, ZC. The role of artificial intelligence in precision medicine for breast cancer. Discov Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42423852 .
  8. Joo, JH, Chun, J, Lee, J, Hwang, IS, Kim, TH, Park, S. Estimating Economic Burden of Cancer in South Korea in 2015 to 2019. Value Health Reg Issues 2026; : 101671. PubMed PMID:42423579 .
  9. Patel, R, Rother, G, Pesika, N, Kimmel, GA, Levin, Y, Schenter, GK, Mundy, CJ, Chun, J, Bharti, B. Molecular Surface Chemistry Drives Anomalous Clustering of Ultrasmall Silica Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem Lett 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42423205 .
  10. Bae, IS, Chun, HJ. Modified high-entry C1 screw placement for bilateral persistent first intersegmental artery in atlantoaxial instability: a case report. Front Surg 2026; 13 : 1893144. PubMed PMID:42421877 PubMed Central PMC13341667.
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