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. Yan, M, Mao, S, Zhao, H, Wang, L, Wang, S. Efficacy and safety of different intensities of anticoagulation with warfarin in elderly patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Pak J Med Sci 2026; 42 (3): 731-736. PubMed PMID:41994394 PubMed Central PMC13080047.
  2. Tsai, TY, Kang, C, Liu, L, Wang, NK, Chen, KJ, Wu, WC, Lai, CC, Garg, SJ, Kang, EY, Hwang, YS et al.. Epidemiology and follow-up adherence of ophthalmic emergencies: A 10-year study at a tertiary medical center in Taiwan. Taiwan J Ophthalmol 2026; 16 (1): 114-124. PubMed PMID:41993647 PubMed Central PMC13082795.
  3. Jo, S, Shon, J, An, S, Nam, Y, Choi, D, Lee, S, Seo, H, Chun, SY, Kim, H, Kim, G et al.. Tailorable porous collagen hydrogels as a physiologically relevant platform for extrachromosomal DNA-associated colorectal cancer research. Theranostics 2026; 16 (10): 5240-5258. PubMed PMID:41993623 PubMed Central PMC13080448.
  4. Jurgens, JA, Bueckle, A, Vora, J, Maurya, MR, Mohseni Ahooyi, T, Zheng, E, Stear, B, Wang, D, Ree, C, Ramachandran, S et al.. The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE). bioRxiv 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41993383 PubMed Central PMC13082093.
  5. Filzmayer, M, Polverino, F, Petix, M, Quarta, L, Orlandi, F, Goyal, JA, Longo, N, Musi, G, Briganti, A, Micali, S et al.. Racial/ethnic differences in time to nephrectomy and its association with cancer-specific mortality in localized renal cell carcinoma. Int Urol Nephrol 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41991713 .
  6. Usmani, SE, Leduc-Gaudet, JP, Chau, S, Bellissimo, CA, Vohra, S, Desjardins, K, Pollock-Tahiri, E, Shi, I, Chun, F, Capobianco, A et al.. BCL6 regulates skeletal muscle mass and mitochondrial bioenergetics. Mol Metab 2026; : 102367. PubMed PMID:41985672 .
  7. Kuruppu, J, Purdy, JB, Pauls, C, Rogan, DC, Blazkova, J, Kardava, L, Sewack, AB, Proschan, MA, Migueles, SA, Connors, M et al.. A Single Dose Study of Pembrolizumab in People With HIV Infection Who are Immunologic Nonresponders. Open Forum Infect Dis 2026; 13 (4): ofag203. PubMed PMID:41983147 PubMed Central PMC13075952.
  8. Schaack, D, Chun, KRJ, Neven, K, Metzner, A, Heeger, C, Wakili, R, Sultan, A, Urbani, A, Reinsch, N, Rillig, A et al.. Ultrasound-guided vs conventional venous puncture for atrial fibrillation ablation: the ULYSSES trial. Eur Heart J 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41979041 .
  9. Gao, X, Wang, C, Su, Y, Zhang, H, Zhao, Z, Wang, L, Wang, Z, Han, J, Li, J, Zhang, Y et al.. miRNA Profiling Reveals the Role of Gibberellin Signaling Pathway in Low-Nitrogen Stress Adaptation of Xinjiang Spring Wheat. Plants (Basel) 2026; 15 (7): . PubMed PMID:41977754 PubMed Central PMC13074741.
  10. Jeong, M, Ha, IJ, Seo, CS, Jeong, MK, Ahn, KS, Chun, J. Therapeutic Effects of Akebia quinata Seeds Through Apoptosis and Immunogenic Cell Death in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Int J Mol Sci 2026; 27 (7): . PubMed PMID:41977302 PubMed Central PMC13072929.
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