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. Duah, E, Lee, Y, Han, W, Osei, KMO, Oh, S, Aluma, G, Konadu Asiedu, EK, Akuoku, M, Chun, C, Badu, K et al.. Predictors of low birth weight deliveries at a primary health care facility: Suhum Government Hospital, Ghana - a retrospective cross-sectional study. BMJ Public Health 2026; 4 (3): e005159. PubMed PMID:42824903 PubMed Central PMC13629988.
  2. Filzmayer, M, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Quarta, L, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G, Briganti, A, Micali, S et al.. Importance of time to nephrectomy in localized renal cell cancer according to histological subtype. Minerva Urol Nephrol 2026; 78 (4): 519-528. PubMed PMID:42823865 .
  3. Park, S. Erased Alternatives, Locked-in Path: The Contestation of Medical Workforce Supply Policy in Authoritarian South Korea, 1961-1988. Uisahak 2026; 35 (2): 575-633. PubMed PMID:42823809 .
  4. Liu, X, Jin, J, Xu, Z, Huo, L, Zhang, F, Fu, X, Liu, Y, He, T, Li, X, Wang, L et al.. Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine against dominant A(H1N1)pdm09 in adults ≥ 60 years: a multicenter test-negative design in Zhejiang, China, 2024-2025. BMC Geriatr 2026; 26 (1): . PubMed PMID:42823662 .
  5. Filzmayer, M, Petix, M, Quarta, L, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Carmignani, L, Briganti, A, Micali, S, Shariat, SF, Wenzel, M et al.. Sociodemographic barriers to receiving adjuvant systemic therapy after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma. Urol Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42823300 .
  6. Kim, SJ, Kim, HE, Chung, KH, Lee, G, Park, KH, Kim, YG, Kim, M, Choi, WY, Joo, SC, Kee, HJ et al.. Hypertension fuels osteoarthritis through neuroendocrine signaling. Science 2026; 394 (6819): eaed8207. PubMed PMID:42821663 .
  7. Julian Chun, KR, Gunawardene, M, Schmidt, B. Shocked Beyond the Field: Coronary Vasospasm After Remote Pulsed Field Ablation. JACC Case Rep 2026; 31 (39): 110359. PubMed PMID:42820623 .
  8. Love, AC, Kihara, Y, Mizuno, H, Nagai, K, Coronel, D, Sheffler, DJ, Tan, VP, Moore, BS, Chun, J. A phytocannabinoid-sensitive phosphorylation switch converts endocannabinoids into alternative lipid GPCR activators. bioRxiv 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42818206 PubMed Central PMC13622143.
  9. Shin, H, Tello, JG, Kim, CJ, Chun, JH, Peprah, F, Parent, BD, Atajanova, T, Mahmud, RA, Qiang, L, Aguirre, AJ et al.. De novo design of protease-activatable cytokine prodrugs. bioRxiv 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42818144 PubMed Central PMC13622076.
  10. Giap, HV, Alomaym, M, Chung, CJ, Choi, SH, Chun, JH, Alkhamees, A, Lee, KJ. Skeletal displacements and upper airway changes following tooth-borne and tooth-bone-borne rapid palatal expansion in adolescents: secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. BMC Oral Health 2026; 26 (1): . PubMed PMID:42816853 PubMed Central PMC13628872.
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