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. Sai, J, Li, H, Chun, L, Li, W, Song, D, Yi, M, Wang, Z. Modulation of microbiota by traditional Chinese medicine in chronic inflammatory airway disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies. Front Immunol 2026; 17 : 1904457. PubMed PMID:42876713 PubMed Central PMC13661446.
  2. Yu, J, Hong, P, Pan, L, Wang, J. Association of Perioperative Full-Course Nursing Management With Renal Function and Urinary Tract Infections in Patients With Complex Urinary Tract Stones Undergoing Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy. Arch Esp Urol 2026; 79 (8): 1429-1439. PubMed PMID:42876133 .
  3. Chae, HJ, Park, KM, Lee, GY, Jeong, GS, Park, HR, Kim, HM, Chae, SW, Yoo, SK, Kim, HR. Correction: Je-Chun-Jun induced apoptosis of human cervical carcinoma HeLa cells. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42875557 .
  4. Siech, C, Ebeling, C, Wenzel, M, Brüggemann, T, Chun, F, Kriegmair, M, Graefen, M, Preisser, F, Mehring, G, Steuber, T et al.. Functional Outcomes of High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Neoadjuvant Androgen Deprivation Therapy (nADT) Prior to Radical Prostatectomy. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2026; 24 (8): 102678. PubMed PMID:42874238 .
  5. Lee, DH, Chun, SY, Kim, HY, Oh, K. G‑Protein-Coupled Receptor 41 (GPR41) as a Therapeutic Target for Metabolic Endotoxemia: Mechanistic Insights into AR420626-Induced Autophagy and Nuclear Factor kappa B (NF-κB) Suppression. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci 2026; 9 (10): 2746-2757. PubMed PMID:42871971 PubMed Central PMC13659834.
  6. Jiang, Y, Tian, L, Wang, Y, Qian, Z, Wang, M, Fang, W, Luan, Y. Associations between quantitative ocular surface features and CT morphology of the levator palpebrae superioris complex in patients with thyroid eye disease and upper eyelid retraction: a cross-sectional study. Front Med (Lausanne) 2026; 13 : 1912490. PubMed PMID:42871140 PubMed Central PMC13658100.
  7. Kuo, TH, Chen, YJ, Lee, PC, Yang, TC, Lu, HS, Huang, HC, Luo, JC, Cheng, HM, Hou, MC. Nonselective beta-blockers and hepatic encephalopathy in liver cirrhosis:A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Chin Med Assoc 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42870342 .
  8. Ko, YH, Chun, J, Kim, G, Yu, J, Kim, DH. Metabolic convergence on TOR signaling in the chestnut blight fungus and its regulation by host plant signals. New Phytol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42870285 .
  9. Chun, SG, Iyengar, P, Rimner, A, Amini, A, Donington, J, Edelman, MJ, Feigenberg, SJ, Geng, Y, Gubens, MA, Higgins, KA et al.. American Radium Society Appropriate Use Criteria: Accelerated hypofractionated radiotherapy in the multidisciplinary management of locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer ineligible for concurrent chemotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42869299 .
  10. Wu, PL. Direction of effect and temporal cohort definition. Letter to the editor regarding "Auditory complications of COVID-19 infection and vaccination: a TriNetX retrospective cohort study" by Chun WB et al. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (2026). doi: 10.1007/s00405-026-10512-5. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42867679 .
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