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. Hamaguchi, R, Khouri, KS, Leung, N, Lafleur, E, Chun, YS. Ideas and Innovations: Successful Maintenance of Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction in Recurrent Breast Cancer Treatment Using Tailored Tissue Expander Conversion. Plast Reconstr Surg 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42658164 .
  2. Chun, JM, Choy, S, Seok, JW, Kim, JD, Park, SR. Photobiomodulation in animal models of ophthalmic disease: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of morphological, visual function, and inflammatory outcomes. Front Med (Lausanne) 2026; 13 : 1904150. PubMed PMID:42656281 PubMed Central PMC13506296.
  3. Lim, S, Chun, JM, Jeon, IH. Rotator Cuff Repair with Autologous Fascia Lata Augmentation in Patients at High Risk for Repair Failure: Five-Year Follow-Up Outcomes. J Clin Med 2026; 15 (16): . PubMed PMID:42652845 .
  4. Jo, A, Lee, J, Chun, AY, Kang, MK, Kim, HE. Black Cumin Seed Oil Disrupts Structural Biomass and Attenuates Porphyrin-Associated Maturation in Mature Oral Microcosm Biofilms: An In Vitro Study. Biomedicines 2026; 14 (8): . PubMed PMID:42652257 .
  5. Marcus, DJ, English, AE, Chun, G, Seth, EF, Oommen, R, Hwang, S, Wells, BA, Piantadosi, SC, Suko, A, Kenmochi, SJ et al.. Endocannabinoids facilitate reward engagement through retrograde gain control. Nature 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42649292 .
  6. Ke, J, Chamberlain, TA, Song, H, Corriveau, A, Zhang, Z, Martinez, T, Sams, L, Chun, MM, Leong, YC, Rosenberg, MD et al.. Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour. Nat Hum Behav 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42649254 .
  7. Li, J, Lai, J, Ni, F, Xie, Y, Tang, E, Tang, Y, Wang, C. Corrigendum to "State-level brain dynamics reveal neural correlates of negative-mode rigidity in non-suicidal self-injury" [NeuroImage 335 (2026) 121990]. Neuroimage 2026; : 122177. PubMed PMID:42648965 .
  8. Choi, R, Chun, G, Lee, SG, Cho, SE. Impact of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Cutoff Selection on Cardiovascular Risk Classification Beyond Lipid Measurements in Korean Adults: A KNHANES 2024 Study. Metabolites 2026; 16 (8): . PubMed PMID:42646267 PubMed Central PMC13515918.
  9. Liu, X, Chun, J, Zhang, H, Fan, Z, Zhu, Y, Chen, Q, Fan, X, Yang, S, Li, H, Wang, X et al.. High Genotypic Polymorphism and Extensive Gene Flow Drive the Population Dynamics of Potato Oomycete Pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, Across Southwestern China. J Fungi (Basel) 2026; 12 (8): . PubMed PMID:42646080 PubMed Central PMC13514179.
  10. Chen, X, Zhou, S, Feng, M, Shi, C, Shen, D, Sun, Y, Bi, Y, Zhang, J. Early cardia neoplasms in the upper gastrointestinal tract have a higher detection rate under sedation: a retrospective cohort study based on the Chinese population. Front Med (Lausanne) 2026; 13 : 1775066. PubMed PMID:42643205 PubMed Central PMC13503191.
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