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. Yangyang, Z, Xiaoyu, L, Yusong, H, Kai, S, Bensi, Z, Zhenlin, L, Chun, S, Yunfei, L, Weixiu, Z, Tong, L et al.. Targeting lncRNA RP11-358L4.1 attenuates breast cancer cell proliferation and is associated with cell cycle and immune-related transcriptomic signatures. World J Surg Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41772665 .
  2. Wenzel, M, Filzmayer, M, Siech, C, Le, QC, Lauer, B, Theissen, L, Hoeh, B, Heinzer, H, Graefen, M, Steuber, T et al.. Cancer-control outcomes of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer and ≥ 10 bone metastases receiving apalutamide: a real-world cohort. BMC Cancer 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41772487 .
  3. Shahnaee, A, Liu, CS, Ngo, T, Palmer, CR, Ziomek, D, Park, C, Tan, VP, Jimenez, NL, Chun, J. RNA isoform diversity, splicing variants and switching in single cells of the Alzheimer's disease brain. Commun Biol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41772081 .
  4. Zhao, N, Zhan, Y, Choi, J, Lee, HJ, Chung, M. Associations Between Live Dietary Microbe Intakes and Cardiometabolic Health in Korean Adults. J Nutr 2026; : 101459. PubMed PMID:41771440 .
  5. Huang, Q, Zou, Z, Cheng, D, Gao, R, Zhou, L, Wu, W, Yuan, Y, Chun, C, Huang, Y, Liang, G et al.. Glycyl-l-histidyl-l-lysine as a novel co-former in co-amorphous systems: Enhanced aqueous solubility and physical stability. Eur J Pharm Sci 2026; : 107493. PubMed PMID:41771428 .
  6. Chun, M, Lee, K, Jung, B, Kim, Y, Yang, C, Choi, J, Cha, J, Lee, SH, Im, CH. Prediction of treatment responsiveness to home-based transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) intervention for cognitive decline using fNIRS concurrently recorded during tPBM. Front Aging Neurosci 2026; 18 : 1716502. PubMed PMID:41767844 PubMed Central PMC12936009.
  7. Lin, CL, Wu, HC, Yu, NC, Liu, YC, Chien, WC. Association between sarcopenic obesity and cognitive impairment among taiwanese older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross-sectional study. Geriatr Nurs 2026; 69 : 103961. PubMed PMID:41764896 .
  8. Stram, MN, Caffes, PL, Lo, YC. Diagnostic Utility of Expression Imbalance in Idylla GeneFusion Assay for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Mol Diagn 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41763606 .
  9. Chang, HH, Chun, YM, Kim, SJ, Kim, WM, Yoon, TH. Duration of Smoking Cessation Needed to Achieve Retear Rates Comparable to Those of Nonsmokers After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair. Am J Sports Med 2026; : 3635465261422620. PubMed PMID:41761469 .
  10. Filzmayer, M, Nicolazzini, M, Catanzaro, C, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Quarta, L, Goyal, JA, Volpe, A, Schiavina, R, Longo, N et al.. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Versus Adverse In-Hospital Outcomes After Partial or Radical Nephrectomy. Ann Surg Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41760967 .
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