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. Abedi, M, Expòsit, M, Coventry, B, Mathew, D, Jain, S, Krishnakumar, A, Goreshnik, I, Gray-Gaillard, SL, Lunn-Halbert, M, Yu, TY et al.. High-Throughput De Novo Protein Design Yields Novel Immunomodulatory Agonists. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41279583 PubMed Central PMC12632978.
  2. Luquette, LJ, Coorens, THH, Natu, A, Suvakov, M, Caplin, A, Jun, MS, Mo, A, Pelt, J, Anderson, L, Berselli, M et al.. A comprehensive view of somatic mosaicism by single-cell DNA analysis. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41279272 PubMed Central PMC12637448.
  3. Ha, YJ, Maziec, D, Markowski, J, Georges, SJ, Parmalee, NL, Berselli, M, Coorens, THH, Dong, S, Gardiner, S, Kalra, D et al.. Comprehensive benchmarking of somatic single-nucleotide variant and indel detection at ultra-low allele fractions using short- and long-read data. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41278982 PubMed Central PMC12632906.
  4. Wang, S, Bae, M, Wang, J, Zhao, B, Nguyen, K, Mallett, S, Switzenberg, JA, Losh, SJ, Sexton, CE, Miao, B et al.. Multi-platform framework for mapping somatic retrotransposition in‬ human tissues. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41278868 PubMed Central PMC12632373.
  5. Shin, E, Kim, SI, Park, MH, Kim, HA, Jung, Y, Ryu, JM, Park, EH, Kim, SY, Lee, EG, Lee, MH et al.. Correction: Comparative study on bone mineral density in premenopausal patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in ASTRRA Study: a 5-year follow-up study. Front Oncol 2025; 15 : 1729229. PubMed PMID:41278270 PubMed Central PMC12635617.
  6. Wenzel, M, Lauer, B, Burdenski, K, Tselis, N, Rödel, C, Brandts, C, Ahrens, M, Köllermann, J, Graefen, M, Humke, C et al.. Influence of PSA level at salvage radiotherapy on metastasis-free survival following radical prostatectomy. World J Urol 2025; 43 (1): 713. PubMed PMID:41272134 PubMed Central PMC12638372.
  7. Kim, TH, Chun, JW, Woo, SM, Chung, JH, Lee, MH, Han, SS, Park, SJ, Lee, SU, Suh, YG, Moon, SH et al.. Impact of treatment sequence and dose response on outcomes in locally advanced pancreatic cancer treated with hypofractionated proton beam therapy using simultaneous integrated boost technique. Radiother Oncol 2025; 214 : 111295. PubMed PMID:41271172 .
  8. Jo, S, Lee, S, Kim, H, Won, H, Rhie, GE, Jeong, HS, Lee, JW, Kim, AR, Chun, BC, Peck, KR et al.. Effectiveness of the 2023-2024 monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 infection in people aged over 65 years in South Korea: A population-based cohort study. Int J Infect Dis 2025; : 108238. PubMed PMID:41271028 .
  9. Laakso, I, Paulides, MM, Kodera, S, Ahn, S, Brace, CL, Cavagnaro, M, Chen, J, Deng, ZD, De Santis, V, Diao, Y et al.. Roadmap towards personalized approaches and safety considerations in non-ionizing radiation: from dosimetry to therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Phys Med Biol 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41270373 .
  10. Chen, YN, Shen, CH, Tai, CC, Wang, TY, Chi, CC. Adverse pregnancy outcomes among pregnant women with hidradenitis suppurativa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Exp Dermatol 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41268934 .
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