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. Urbani, A, Kheir, JA, Urbanek, L, Schaack, D, Rocchetti, M, Steyer, A, Najafi, S, Marx, A, Lurz, J, Gunawardene, M et al.. Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure: evolution of devices and expanding clinical applications. Expert Rev Med Devices 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41618699 .
  2. Liu, H, Yao, Y, Zhang, C, Xiong, J. Metabolic Checkpoints in IgA Nephropathy: From Pathogenesis to Precision Medicine. Drugs 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41618071 .
  3. Chanvorachote, P, Chaotham, C, Ei, ZZ, Chunhacha, P. Targeting mTOR Signaling in Cancer: The Promise of Natural Product-derived Inhibitors. Anticancer Res 2026; 46 (2): 553-568. PubMed PMID:41617433 .
  4. Foss-Freitas, MC, Gilio, D, Pais, L, Buras, ED, Kaul Verma, R, O'Leary, M, Rehm, HL, Glaze, C, Russell, K, Monteiro da Rocha, A et al.. EBF2 variant identified in a patient with atypical partial lipodystrophy causes adipose fibrosis and dysfunction. J Clin Invest 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41615236 .
  5. Yasir, M, Choe, J, Han, JH, Chun, W. Molecular Basis of GABA Aminotransferase Inhibition in Epilepsy: Structure, Mechanisms, and Drug Development. Curr Issues Mol Biol 2025; 47 (12): . PubMed PMID:41614796 PubMed Central PMC12731848.
  6. Chun, JY, Patel, S, Ameli-Renani, S, Pavlidis, V, Morgan, R. Embolisation of Type 2 Endoleaks Associated with Sac Expansion-Outcomes from a Single-Centre Cohort. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41611963 .
  7. Darooghegi Mofrad, M, Nosal, B, Bi, J, Chun, OK. Blood Metabolomic and Proteomic Signatures of Total, Healthy, and Unhealthy Low-Carbohydrate Diets in the UK Biobank. J Am Nutr Assoc 2026; : 1-15. PubMed PMID:41609508 .
  8. Siech, C, Brüggemann, T, Le, QC, Lauer, B, Humke, C, Preisser, F, Maurer, T, Kriegmair, M, Graefen, M, Steuber, T et al.. External Validation of the Martini-Klinik Nomogram Predicting the Indication for Adjuvant Radiation Therapy According to EAU Guidelines Among Patients With High-Risk Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy. Prostate 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41609399 .
  9. Kim, YY, Kim, HJ, Chun, YS, Park, HK. Residual Microcalcifications After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Implications for Surgical Decision-Making-A Systematic Review. J Clin Med 2026; 15 (2): . PubMed PMID:41598390 PubMed Central PMC12842292.
  10. Choi, J, Kim, DH, Chung, JH, Jung, HS, Seo, YH, Chun, HR, Gong, HY, Ji, JY, Park, JS, Jeong, JY et al.. Effective Pain Relief Following Caudal Epidural Block in a Pediatric Patient with Traumatic Sacrococcygeal Dislocation: A Case Report. Children (Basel) 2025; 13 (1): . PubMed PMID:41597040 PubMed Central PMC12839754.
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