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. Chun, H, Doo, M. Sex-specific associations between grip strength and metabolic syndrome in Korean adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional study. Prev Med Rep 2026; 67 : 103509. PubMed PMID:42256803 PubMed Central PMC13241931.
  2. Chun, SJ, Kim, N, Lim, DH, Kim, JY, Wee, CW, Yoon, HI, Jeon, SH, Kim, IA, Lee, JH. Impact of salvage treatment for recurrent medulloblastoma in previously irradiated patients (KROG 23-02): A multi-institutional retrospective study. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 2026; 59 : 101197. PubMed PMID:42255978 PubMed Central PMC13241757.
  3. Wang, Y, Cao, B, Cheng, J, Wang, M, Qiu, Z, Yan, W. Phytochemical-based quality and marker identification of sweet tea (Lithocarpus litseifolius [hance] Chun) from various Jiangxi regions. Food Chem X 2026; 36 : 104049. PubMed PMID:42255273 PubMed Central PMC13233576.
  4. Olson, TE, Lloyd, TS, Hamad, CD, Chun, RF, Wiener, J, Golzar, A, Mehany, J, Shahamatdar, S, Kittredge, A, Pearce, L et al.. Spinal Implant-Associated Infection in Type 2 and Type 1 Diabetes: Phenotype-Specific Inflammatory Features and Therapeutic Response to Semaglutide. JOR Spine 2026; 9 (2): e70196. PubMed PMID:42253285 PubMed Central PMC13239351.
  5. Morikawa, S, Herbst, C, John, E, Croll, D, Mousley, C, Henares, B, Tan, KC, Verdonk, C. A Conserved Transcription Factor Domain Drives Necrotrophic Effector-Mediated Virulence and Putative Protein Interactions in Parastagonospora nodorum. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42251633 .
  6. Song, B, Yang, X, Wang, WJ, Fu, K, Liu, P, Liu, C. An interpretable machine-learning model for post-admission reassessment of bloodstream infection risk in ICU patients with pneumonia. Sci Rep 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42251092 .
  7. Petix, M, Polverino, F, Quarta, L, Filzmayer, M, Lee, NJ, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Briganti, A, Chun, F et al.. Effect of marital status on years of life lost from metastatic bladder cancer according to sex and race/ethnicity. Urol Oncol 2026; 44 (8): 132-137. PubMed PMID:42250515 .
  8. Quarta, L, Catanzaro, C, Nicolazzini, M, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Filzmayer, M, Longoni, M, Goyal, JA, Schiavina, R, Volpe, A et al.. Years of life lost from metastatic prostate cancer according to household income. World J Urol 2026; 44 (1): . PubMed PMID:42250108 .
  9. Chun, RH, Tiegs-Heiden, CA, Halling, G, Adamo, DA, Atwell, TD. Benign metastasizing leiomyoma: a rare case of osseous involvement. Skeletal Radiol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42249958 .
  10. Tan, RS, Yap, J, Yeo, C, Poh, KK, Yan, PCH, Chia, PL, Lim, MCL, Foo, D, Jafary, FH, Koh, NSY et al.. Singapore expert consensus on optimising lipid-lowering strategies in acute coronary syndrome: A modified Delphi study. Ann Acad Med Singap 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42249756 .
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