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. Kalavalapalli, S, Leiva, EG, Rocha, AO, Sharma, A, Barb, D, Cuervo-Pardo, N, Chun, KY, Prezant, TR, Connelly, MA, Rosenberg, JT et al.. High Prevalence of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis With Significant Fibrosis in Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinics. Diabetes Obes Metab 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42056678 .
  2. Ritchhart, A, Fu, Y, Wang, Q, Sarceno, A, Kasparek, D, Miller, E, Prabhakaran, V, Sushko, ML, Dinpajooh, M, Palmer, B et al.. Magnetic Fields Enrich Paramagnetic Ion Concentrations via Magnetophoresis and Magnet-Induced Convection. J Phys Chem B 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42054570 .
  3. Wu, HL, Webb, GM, Fuchs, SP, Pessoa, CT, Hwang, JM, Fisher, HK, McCullen, AJ, Humkey, MC, Brown, MK, Waytashek, CM et al.. Adeno-associated virus gene therapy-mediated CCR5 blockade suppresses virus replication long term in SHIV-infected macaques. Sci Transl Med 2026; 18 (847): eadw1976. PubMed PMID:42054491 .
  4. Jang, H, Lee, SM, Kim, HJ, Jung, NY, Zetterberg, H, Blennow, K, Apostolova, LG, Moon, SY, Kim, EJ, Longitudinal Study of Early-Onset Dementia and Family Members (LEAF) Investigators et al.. Plasma Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Early-Onset Dementia. JAMA Netw Open 2026; 9 (4): e269687. PubMed PMID:42054026 .
  5. Seal, KH, Morasco, BJ, Martin, AM, Reddy, KP, Van Iseghem, TM, Bolton, RE, Bokhour, BG, Murphy, J, Denneson, LM, Esserman, D et al.. The Veteran Affairs' Whole Health Approach for Chronic Pain Management: The wHOPE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42054020 .
  6. Filzmayer, M, Cano Garcia, C, Traumann, MI, Müller, MJ, Humke, C, Mandel, PC, Kluth, LA, Becker, A, Chun, FK, Kosiba, M et al.. Thulium fiber laser versus Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate: 24-month outcomes from a prospective randomized non-inferiority trial. World J Urol 2026; 44 (1): . PubMed PMID:42053844 .
  7. Lam, WWT, Ng, DWL, Guo, C, Ng, R, Fielding, R, Foo, CC, Kwong, A, Simon Ng, SM, Suen, D, Fung, S et al.. The Role of Metacognition, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Cognitive-Attentional Syndrome in Differentiating Fear of Cancer Recurrence. Psychooncology 2026; 35 (5): e70475. PubMed PMID:42053231 .
  8. Yang, H, Zhou, M, Zhang, FC. Vaccarin Improves Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Attenuating Oxidative Stress and Ferroptosis Through Reducing NOX4-Modulated JAK2/STAT3 Pathway Activation. Kaohsiung J Med Sci 2026; : e70226. PubMed PMID:42053107 .
  9. Clark, HJ, Chun, Y, Nitz, M. Protease-triggered self-immolative acyl phosphates for controlled phosphate release. Org Biomol Chem 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42052642 .
  10. Subramani, K, Su, CC, Wang, JH, Huang, HS, Hsu, CS, Chen, PC, Chu, TY. Tubal ligation exacerbates ovulation-driven TP53 mutagenesis and p53 signatures by depleting protective menstrual hemoglobin. J Pathol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42052633 .
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