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. Menzel, V, Groeben, C, Hoffmann, F, Chun, FKH, Weissbach, L, Thomas, C, Huber, J, Baunacke, M. Barriers to post-prostatectomy stress incontinence care: knowledge gaps, patient concerns, and urologist communication. World J Urol 2026; 44 (1): 99. PubMed PMID:41546689 .
  2. Park, SH, Park, J, Kim, HD, Choi, S, Lee, S, Kim, JW, Cho, BG, Koo, TY, Eom, I, Kim, M et al.. A Hidden Photoinduced Phase-Transition Pathway in Strain-Engineered VO2. Adv Mater 2026; : e17123. PubMed PMID:41546415 .
  3. Guo, X, Prajapati, RS, Chun, J, Byun, I, Gebis, KK, Wang, YZ, Ling, K, Dalton, C, Blair, JA, Hamidianjahromi, A et al.. Reduction of RAD23A extends lifespan and mitigates pathology in a mouse model of TDP-43 proteinopathy. Nat Commun 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41545357 .
  4. Park, J, Kang, N. Point-Deeponet: Predicting nonlinear fields on non-Parametric geometries under variable load conditions. Neural Netw 2026; 198 : 108560. PubMed PMID:41544498 .
  5. Qiu, Y, Xu, H, Zou, W, Zhu, G, Wu, Z, Paerl, HW, Shi, K, Shi, P, Kang, L, Zhao, X et al.. Rainstorm regimes modulate cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in deep reservoirs: Synergistic effects of nutrient pulses and hydrological perturbations. Limnol Oceanogr 2025; 70 (11): 3462-3476. PubMed PMID:41541791 PubMed Central PMC12803737.
  6. Park, KS, Kim, HS, Oh, JH, Chung, WC, Choi, SC, Lee, SH, Kim, TH, Cheung, DY, Baik, GH, Kim, SM et al.. Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Controlled, Parallel, Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Zastaprazan in Patients with Gastric Ulcers. Gut Liver 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41540828 .
  7. Yoon, S, Chun, E, Iqbal, H, Kim, SH, Kim, SY, Jin, M. Triterpenoid saponins from Platycodon grandiflorus exhibit antidepressant-like effects and are associated with BDNF-mediated neuroplasticity signaling in a chronic stress model. J Ethnopharmacol 2026; : 121208. PubMed PMID:41539634 .
  8. Piliposyan, M, Peoples, JJ, Hamghalam, M, Mojtahedi, R, Kobayashi, K, Bunker, EC, Gangai, N, Kang, HC, Chun, YS, Muise, C et al.. Radiomic signatures from baseline CT predict chemotherapy response in unresectable colorectal liver metastases. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) 2026; 13 (1): 014505. PubMed PMID:41536565 PubMed Central PMC12797257.
  9. Kang, H, Gu, Y, Lee, J, Yoon, S, Zetterberg, H, Blennow, K, Gonzalez-Ortiz, F, Ashton, NJ, Day, TA, Weiner, MW et al.. Double cutoff strategies for plasma pTau217 to predict Tau PET positivity across multiple assay platforms: Tau-enriched and Tau-scarce cohorts for cost-effective clinical use. Alzheimers Res Ther 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41535902 .
  10. Kim, W, Hu, X, Kim, K, Chun, S, Orchard, P, Qiao, D, Ruczinski, I, Saferali, A, Aguet, F, Antonacci-Fulton, L et al.. Whole genome sequence analysis of pulmonary function and COPD in 44,287 multi-ancestry participants. Genome Biol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41535900 .
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