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.

Affiliations

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Recent Publications

  1. Ren, J, Ding, Y, Huang, Z, Yang, S, Chen, F, Ma, J, Pan, K, Zhu, X, Chen, CC. Surface dynamics of newly released microplastics during early-stage aging in coastal water: Physicochemical property alterations and microbial community successions. Environ Pollut 2026; : 129266. PubMed PMID:42815763 .
  2. Nunez, A, Wong, M, Curtis, M, Acosta, J, Valera, J, Sanchez, D, Shi, Y, Chun, E, Kosyluk, KA, Galea, JT et al.. Harnessing Social Media, Influencers, and Community Engagement to Confront HIV-Related Stigma in Peru: Longitudinal Descriptive Study of the DiME Campaign. J Med Internet Res 2026; 28 : e93260. PubMed PMID:42814741 .
  3. Van Truong, N, Nguyen, T-K, Sy Thau, N, Chu, T-TH, Han, J-H, Na, S-H, Park, W-S, Chun, W-J, No, JH, Lu, F et al.. Anti-plasmodial activity of proteasome inhibitors against various Plasmodium species: a preclinical evaluation. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2026; : e0038226. PubMed PMID:42814015 .
  4. Chun, J. A double-edged sword in the very elderly: to screen or not to screen with colonoscopy? Clin Endosc 2026; 59 (5): 774-775. PubMed PMID:42811944 .
  5. Chun, SH. Reporting inconsistencies in a meta-analysis of sarcopenia and the prognostic nutritional index in immune checkpoint inhibitor-treated head and neck cancer. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2026; : 105620. PubMed PMID:42810558 .
  6. Chun, S, Lee, HJ, Lee, IK. A Room to Roam: Real-Time Reset Prediction for Redirected Walking Based on Environment Layouts. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph 2026; PP : . PubMed PMID:42809472 .
  7. Nicolazzini, M, Polverino, F, Quarta, L, Filzmayer, M, Petix, M, Catanzaro, C, Lee, N, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G et al.. The effect of time to nephrectomy on cancer-specific mortality in pathological T stage (pT)1b-2 renal cancer. BJU Int 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42808865 .
  8. Yan, ES, Sun, S, Yin, Z, Kamali, A, Van Cleave, J, Isgor, IS, Fried, B, Colorado-Jimenez, C, Dilip, D, Baik, J et al.. An AI-powered self-driving microscope for low-cost acute leukemia detection. Nat Commun 2026; 17 (1): . PubMed PMID:42805957 PubMed Central PMC13619560.
  9. Shin, YE, Kim, JY, Yoo, JJ, Kim, SG, Kim, YS. High Treatment Adherence Is Associated With Lower Observed HCC Risk in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B and Cirrhosis: A Nationwide Claims-Based Cohort Study. J Med Virol 2026; 98 (10): e71167. PubMed PMID:42803662 .
  10. Pan, L, He, J, Han, P, Wang, J. The diagnostic value of miR-1-3p in atopic dermatitis and its correlation with inflammatory factors. Ann Agric Environ Med 2026; 33 (3): 367-372. PubMed PMID:42802957 .
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