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. Han, M, Chung, J, Yang, S, Park, SH, Zhang, J, Lee, K, Hwang, D, Lee, KS, Na, SH, Doh, JH et al.. Acute coronary syndrome risk in coronary side branch versus main vessel lesions: Lumen, plaque, and hemodynamic insights from coronary CT angiography. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42409646 .
  2. Wu, Z, Bao, Y, Chun, J, Sun, R, Ming, Y, Guo, Z, Xing, Z, Zhao, Y, Huang, X. Engineering a Thiamine-Dependent Benzoylformate Decarboxylase for Stereodivergent Radical C(sp3)-C(sp3) Bond Formation. J Am Chem Soc 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42406495 .
  3. Do, DV, Wykoff, CC, Sivaprasad, S, Brown, DM, Boyer, DS, Sakamoto, T, Win, P, Joshi, S, Salehi-Had, H, Seres, A et al.. Plain language summary of publication of the 96-week results from the PHOTON study: intravitreal aflibercept 8 mg for diabetic macular edema. Ther Adv Ophthalmol 2026; 18 : 25158414261459529. PubMed PMID:42404622 PubMed Central PMC13332283.
  4. Oh, HH, Lee, JG, Ji, JH, Choi, S, Lim, KY, Jo, HH, Oh, CK, Oh, SJ, Kim, DH, Song, E et al.. Predicting Remnant Tumor After Incomplete Resection of Rectal Neuroendocrine Tumors: The KASID Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42402361 .
  5. Khalil, W, Song, H, Li, Z, He, Y, Xu, C, Ye, Q. Role of oral microbiome in cancer immunotherapy. Semin Cancer Biol 2026; 125 : 34-48. PubMed PMID:42398560 .
  6. Xu, M, Chen, M, Li, Z, Lyu, C, Wang, A, Zhou, R, Zhao, C, Xiang, J, Wong, TC, Farahnaki, H et al.. ESD-VesNet: uncertainty-aware vessel segmentation network for endoscopic submucosal dissection with hard negative mining. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42397609 .
  7. Do, WS, Chun, YM, Kim, SJ, Sim, W, Yoon, TH. Comparison of Long-term Supraspinatus Tear Progression After Arthroscopic Isolated Subscapularis Repair With and Without Comma Tissue Preservation: A Minimum 10-Year MRI Follow-up Study. Am J Sports Med 2026; : 3635465261460741. PubMed PMID:42396831 .
  8. Roybal, KL, James, TT, Chun, LL, Squire, KM. A qualitative exploration of clinicians' experiences and perceptions of a well-being leadership development training program. BMC Health Serv Res 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42393639 .
  9. Quarta, L, Filzmayer, M, Petix, M, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Chun, FKH, Ferro, M, Micali, S, Shariat, SF, Barletta, F et al.. Temporal Trends of Metastatic Prostate Cancer in the Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography Era in the United States. Prostate 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42391479 .
  10. Clemens, A, Alibrandi, S, Molinari, P, Noble, J, Franchin, B, Fribourg, M, Cravedi, P, Chun, N. Echocardiography-guided assessment of mouse cardiac transplant rejection improves model reproducibility. Front Transplant 2026; 5 : 1840060. PubMed PMID:42389316 PubMed Central PMC13318921.
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