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. Abdelraheem, O, El Kheir-Mataria, WA, Chun, S. Genetic, Socioecological, and Health Research on Extreme Longevity in Semisupercentenarians and Supercentenarians: A Scoping Review. J Aging Res 2026; 2026 : 1605361. PubMed PMID:42007363 PubMed Central PMC13090574.
  2. Wang, S, Wang, X, Wang, Y, Li, C. Synergistic engineering of monoterpenoid synthase and metabolic pathways to enhance α-terpineol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Synth Syst Biotechnol 2026; 14 : 54-63. PubMed PMID:42006856 PubMed Central PMC13091366.
  3. Hosoda, KK, Shiroma, KY, Lee, PM, Chun, MB. Academic and Pre-Medical Advising Factors Associated with Admission to the John A. Burns School of Medicine Among Premedical Students at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf 2026; 85 (3): 73-77. PubMed PMID:42004447 PubMed Central PMC13089821.
  4. Lee, JM, Cho, MS, Kang, DY, Ahn, JM, Oh, YS, Lee, CH, Choi, EK, Lee, JH, Kwon, CH, Park, GM et al.. Impact of renal function on edoxaban antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and stable coronary artery disease: a prespecified analysis of the EPIC-CAD trial. EuroIntervention 2026; 22 (8): e432-e443. PubMed PMID:42003300 .
  5. Chun, Y, Ha, S, Bai, J. Data augmentation of event causality identification task with pre-trained language models. Sci Rep 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42002596 .
  6. Longoni, M, Falkenbach, F, Marmiroli, A, Le, QC, Nicolazzini, M, Catanzaro, C, Polverino, F, Goyal, JA, Graefen, M, Ferro, M et al.. Correction: Development and external validation of a nomogram predicting cancer-specific mortality-free survival after trimodal therapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer. World J Urol 2026; 44 (1): . PubMed PMID:42001383 .
  7. Molina, A, Meyle, J, Ram, D, Chun, YP, Colmenares, ME, Davidovich, E. Periodontal Diseases and Conditions in Children and Adolescents Associated With Systemic Disorders: A Systematic Review. J Clin Periodontol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41998830 .
  8. Rusidanmu, A, Zhou, HY, Singh, S, Chin, D, Zhou, K, Huang, MJ, Ye, P. Carinal tracheo-oesophageal fistula repair using adjacent gastric conduit wall after Ivor-Lewis oesophagectomy: a case report. J Cardiothorac Surg 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41998772 .
  9. Chen, M, Zhao, R, Chen, X, Xu, L, Hu, C. RET Inhibition by Selpercatinib Suppresses TGF-β1-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Retinal Pigment Epithelium. Exp Cell Res 2026; : 115006. PubMed PMID:41997282 .
  10. Cui, JY, Ma, JD, Liu, XR, Liu, ZW, Zhang, JY, Zheng, CH, Wei, Q, Chen, QP. Low phase angle in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery inpatients and its impact on clinical outcomes: A cross-sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2026; 105 (16): e48379. PubMed PMID:41995571 .
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