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. Park, KH, Kim, YG, Lee, G, Kim, SJ, Won, Y, Huh, YH, Kim, TJ, Chun, JS, Song, HJ, Ryu, JH et al.. Automated Objective Scoring of Osteoarthritis Severity in Mouse Medial Tibial Cartilage Using Deep Learning. Cartilage 2026; : 19476035261435798. PubMed PMID:42028840 .
  2. Zhu, L, Chun, C, Brown, K, Wang, JZ. Mapping the flow of painterly gesture. Patterns (N Y) 2026; 7 (3): 101516. PubMed PMID:42028401 PubMed Central PMC13100676.
  3. Chen, YC, Chen, SCA, McGwin, G, Chakrabarti, A, Cornely, OA, Barac, A, Kaur, H, Rudramurthy, SM, Phillips, P, Seas, C et al.. Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Cryptococcosis Among Individuals Without HIV Infection: An Observational International Multicenter Study (MSG-11). Open Forum Infect Dis 2026; 13 (4): ofag134. PubMed PMID:42027651 PubMed Central PMC13102100.
  4. Chun, H, Lee, HW, Hong, SB, Ha, SS, Yoon, KJ. Home-based transcranial photobiomodulation improves cognitive function in mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled confirmatory trial. J Alzheimers Dis 2026; : 13872877261443973. PubMed PMID:42024020 .
  5. Voss, RK, Qi, W, Browne, L, Wang'ondu, RW, Khanlari, M, Ma, J, Ma, X, Lott, J, Barajas, JM, Thomas Iii, M et al.. Novel KAT6B::NUTM2B fusion oncogene in congenital acute myeloid leukemia and implications for menin inhibitor therapy. Haematologica 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42021697 .
  6. Filzmayer, M, Traumann, MI, Humke, C, Müller, MJ, Mandel, PC, Kluth, LA, Becker, A, Chun, FK, Kosiba, M. Rates and Predictors of Persistent LUTS Medication Use After Laser Enucleation of the Prostate. Low Urin Tract Symptoms 2026; 18 (3): e70062. PubMed PMID:42021565 PubMed Central PMC13103631.
  7. Chien, KMC, Davynn, TGH, Xiaoling, H, Chun, YMY, Kong, YC. Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognition in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42021325 .
  8. Yang, WC, Chen, YH, Lai, SF, Wang, CC, Kuo, SH, Huang, CS. Response to comments on "Reassessing regional nodal radiotherapy strategies for breast cancer in the context of modern systemic treatments.". J Formos Med Assoc 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42020282 .
  9. Cruz-Soca, M, Córdova-Casanova, A, Faundez-Contreras, J, Martínez, NW, Vaccaro-Rivera, F, Bazaes-Astorga, S, Gutiérrez-Rojas, C, Gallardo, FS, Rebolledo, DL, Court, FA et al.. Lysophosphatidic acid mediates skeletal muscle fibrosis in denervation via activation of YAP/TAZ. JCI Insight 2026; 11 (8): . PubMed PMID:42018654 .
  10. Smielowski, J, Glienke, M, Mehralivand, S, Duwe, G, Chun, F, Borgmann, H, Görtz, M. [Digital twins in uro-oncology]. Urologie 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42018198 .
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