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. Lee, NJ, Polverino, F, Quarta, L, Filzmayer, M, Petix, M, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G, Chun, FKH, Briganti, A et al.. Contemporary Trends in Primary Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection in Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors. Eur Urol Focus 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42705957 .
  2. Kleber, TJ, Copling, SA, Kim, AD, Márquez, CP, Dong, W, Rinsurongkawong, W, Rinsurongkawong, V, Lee, JJ, Kitsel, Y, Han, X et al.. Using Induction Chemoimmunotherapy as a Bridge to Definitive Local Therapy for Non-Metastatic NSCLC: Real-World Outcomes From a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Clin Lung Cancer 2026; 27 (8): 22-32. PubMed PMID:42704953 .
  3. Siech, C, de Angelis, M, Jannello, LMI, Di Bello, F, Peñaranda, NR, Goyal, JA, Saad, F, Shariat, SF, Micali, S, Longo, N et al.. ASO Visual Abstract: Cancer-Specific Mortality in Rare Histologic Subtypes of Prostate Cancer: Radical Prostatectomy Versus Radiation Therapy. Ann Surg Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42704566 .
  4. Lee, SJ, Jee, Y, Chun, HS, Shin, HY. Cancer Risk Among Young Adults With Clinically Diagnosed Fatty Liver Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea. Cancer Med 2026; 15 (9): e72187. PubMed PMID:42702953 .
  5. Lee, SJ, Jee, Y, Chun, HS, Shin, HY. Impact of Smoking on Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Among Young Adults: Evidence From a National Health Insurance System (NHIS) Data. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42702349 .
  6. Gunawardene, MA, Urbani, A, Urbanek, L, Marx, JA, Kheir, J, Lurz, J, Rocchetti, M, Schaack, D, Chun, KRJ, Schmidt, B et al.. The Pear Strategy for Two-Ring Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Antral and Sleeve Ablation Using a Balloon-in-Basket Pulsed Field Ablation Catheter. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42702070 .
  7. Wang, X, Sun, Q, Zhang, Y, Wang, Y, Cai, L, Wang, Z. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Sleep Disorders: Emerging Evidence and Future Directions. Nat Sci Sleep 2026; 18 : 630809. PubMed PMID:42701359 PubMed Central PMC13545341.
  8. Lee, D, Kim, B, Jung, KW, Nam, GE, Rhee, SY, Kim, S, Chun, S, Cho, IY, Han, K, Shin, DW et al.. Low muscle mass, obesity, and cause-specific mortality in cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study. Cancer Causes Control 2026; 37 (10): . PubMed PMID:42700202 .
  9. Lee, EB, Chun, YW, Seo, JP. Pulmonary cryptococcosis with an endobronchial cryptococcoma in a Warmblood mare. Can Vet J 2026; 67 (9): 970-975. PubMed PMID:42699316 PubMed Central PMC13544533.
  10. Kurasawa, Y, Zhou, Q, Lee, KJ, Hu, H, Li, Z. Polo-like kinase phosphorylation of the orphan kinesin KIN-G negatively regulates centrin arm biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei. Elife 2026; 15 : . PubMed PMID:42696466 PubMed Central PMC13544905.
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