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, GY, Chun, JW, Lee, DE, Jang, JH, Lee, WJ, Kim, HP, Lee, ST, Woo, SM, Kong, SY. Prognostic Value and Longitudinal Dynamics of Multigene Circulating Tumor DNA in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Treated with 5-Fluorouracil-Based Chemotherapy. Int J Mol Sci 2026; 27 (19): . PubMed PMID:42883913 .
  2. Park, J, Yasir, M, Han, ET, Han, JH, Park, WS, Choe, J, Chun, W. Network Pharmacology-Guided Identification of Orientin from Passiflora incarnata Reveals Neuroprotective Effects Against Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity Through Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis. Int J Mol Sci 2026; 27 (19): . PubMed PMID:42883852 .
  3. Templonuevo, RMC, Zhao, Y, Chun, J. Comparative Evaluation of Undaria pinnatifida Anatomical Parts for Skin-Related Functional Properties in UVB-Irradiated L929 Fibroblasts Under Normal and High-Glucose Culture Conditions. Foods 2026; 15 (19): . PubMed PMID:42883677 .
  4. Whitfort, A, Ho, S, Woodhouse, F, Chun, M. An Empirical Study of the Operational Challenges for Private Animal Shelters in Hong Kong and Their Links to Regulatory and Policy Gaps. Animals (Basel) 2026; 16 (19): . PubMed PMID:42882963 .
  5. Ding, J, Hu, M, Wang, H, Gong, C, Mei, Z, Chun, W, Deng, D, Ma, Z, Zhang, X, Zhao, Q et al.. A CAP-ALT-HbA1c Model for Biopsy-Confirmed Moderate-to-Severe Hepatic Steatosis in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Development and Internal Validation. J Clin Med 2026; 15 (19): . PubMed PMID:42881956 .
  6. Park, DS, Chun, YI, Roh, HG, Park, JJ, Jeon, YS. Anterior Spinal Artery Aneurysms Associated with Coarctation of the Aorta: A Focused Narrative Review with an Illustrative Case. J Clin Med 2026; 15 (19): . PubMed PMID:42881827 .
  7. Huang, HL, Tan, JY, Yang, Y, Tay, YS, Somanesan, S, Chun, RPC, Tan, LK, Inng, FLLW, Lam, WWC. Ultra-Low-Dose Long-Axial-Field-of-View [18F]FDG PET with CT-Free Attenuation Correction for Staging Hodgkin Lymphoma in Pregnancy. J Nucl Med 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42880962 .
  8. Ha, YJ, Maziec, D, Markowski, J, Georges, SJ, Parmalee, NL, Berselli, M, Coorens, THH, Dong, S, Gardiner, S, Kalra, D et al.. Detecting low-allele-fraction mosaic mutations: A multi-institution benchmarking with cell-line mixtures. Cell Genom 2026; : 101390. PubMed PMID:42880247 .
  9. Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network. Electronic address: abyzov.alexej@mayo.edu, Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network. Comprehensive benchmarking of somatic mutation detection by the SMaHT Network. Cell 2026; 189 (21): 6594-6612.e21. PubMed PMID:42880231 .
  10. Filzmayer, M, Nicolazzini, M, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Quarta, L, Orlandi, F, Lee, NJ, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G et al.. Time to Partial Nephrectomy Versus Cancer-Specific Mortality in 2 to 4 cm Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2026; 24 (8): 102682. PubMed PMID:42880201 .
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