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.

Affiliations

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Recent Publications

  1. Chun, KP, Aragão, L, Olmo, ME, Nguyen, VD, Risanto, CB, Bettolli, ML, Ezber, Y, Toker, E, Varotsos, KV. New horizons in statistical downscaling and AI approaches for sustainable km-scale climate simulations. NPJ Clim Atmos Sci 2026; 9 (1): 151. PubMed PMID:42428801 PubMed Central PMC13345914.
  2. Belay, SG, Elias, EE, Lau, A, Andonegui, G, Chapman, K, Chun, J, Muruve, DA. GATA6 marks fibrosis-associated stromal cells rather than repair macrophages in kidney disease. Sci Rep 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42426262 .
  3. Jee, Y, Lee, SJ, Chun, HS, Shin, HY. Smoking and Risk of Hepatic Steatosis Within the MASLD Spectrum in Korean Young Adults. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42425542 .
  4. Liu, Y, Jadhav, AS, Pan, Y, Liao, J, Khanduri, I, Liu, Y, Katkhuda, R, Lu, W, Cho, KS, Tong, Z et al.. Spatial multi-omics landscape of colorectal cancer macro- and micrometastases. Cancer Cell 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42425074 .
  5. Hu, JJ, Ding, ZL, Yang, ZC. The role of artificial intelligence in precision medicine for breast cancer. Discov Oncol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42423852 .
  6. Joo, JH, Chun, J, Lee, J, Hwang, IS, Kim, TH, Park, S. Estimating Economic Burden of Cancer in South Korea in 2015 to 2019. Value Health Reg Issues 2026; : 101671. PubMed PMID:42423579 .
  7. Patel, R, Rother, G, Pesika, N, Kimmel, GA, Levin, Y, Schenter, GK, Mundy, CJ, Chun, J, Bharti, B. Molecular Surface Chemistry Drives Anomalous Clustering of Ultrasmall Silica Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem Lett 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42423205 .
  8. Bae, IS, Chun, HJ. Modified high-entry C1 screw placement for bilateral persistent first intersegmental artery in atlantoaxial instability: a case report. Front Surg 2026; 13 : 1893144. PubMed PMID:42421877 PubMed Central PMC13341667.
  9. Chun, K, Tran-Dang, MP, Cornett, P, Tashombe, C, Kauhane, M, Al-Adhmi, A, Pavao, W, Braun-Inglis, C, Bantum, E, Fukui, J et al.. Outreach to Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities to increase breast cancer screening and clinical trial awareness. BMC Cancer 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42420902 .
  10. Chun, WB, Nguyen, SA, Mills, JF, Chen, K, Monaghan, NP, Brennan, EA, Nguyen, JP, Meyer, TA. Intervention Outcomes for Meniere's Disease: An Umbrella Review. Laryngoscope 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42420191 .
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