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. Bordignon, S, Mills, MT, Futyma, P, Sultan, A, Metzner, A, Migliore, F, Perrotta, L, Anic, A, Merino, JL, Pürerfellner, H et al.. European Heart Rhythm Association survey on the perceived severity of complications in atrial fibrillation ablation: development of a standardized scoring model. Europace 2025; 27 (11): . PubMed PMID:41263149 .
  2. Do, WS, Choi, JW, Yoon, TH, Lim, JR, Choi, YR, Chun, YM. Evaluating Glenoid Bone Loss Location Using Best Fit and Outer Circles: Are We Pointing in the Same Direction? Orthop J Sports Med 2025; 13 (11): 23259671251387351. PubMed PMID:41262374 PubMed Central PMC12623620.
  3. Lai, HL, Chen, CI, Liaw, GH, Lu, CY, Lu, LC, Huang, CY. Investigating the Relationships Among Nurses' Stress, Sleep Quality, and Mental Health, and the Mediating Role of Coping Strategies and Social Support: A Cross-Sectional Study. Am J Nurs 2025; 125 (12): e1-e8. PubMed PMID:41261491 .
  4. Chun, EK, Djerdjaj, A, Matulis, T, Ng, AJ, Rogers-Carter, MM, Christianson, JP. Insular input to the prelimbic cortex underlies social affective behavior in rats. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41256710 PubMed Central PMC12621744.
  5. Chun, J, Tripathi, P, Flores-Garcia, Y, Madan, B, Lee, GA, Fahad, AS, Lei, H, Teng, IT, Hurlburt, NK, Flynn, BJ et al.. Anti-Malaria Antibody Engineering Broadens Recognition Motifs and Reveals New Homotypic Interactions that Enhance Protective Breadth. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41256528 PubMed Central PMC12621802.
  6. Shahnaee, A, Liu, CS, Ngo, T, Palmer, CR, Ziomek, D, Park, C, Tan, VP, Jimenez, NL, Chun, J. RNA isoform diversity, splicing variants, and switching in single cells of the Alzheimer's disease brain. Res Sq 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41255979 PubMed Central PMC12622169.
  7. Shin, JH, Kim, JY, Kim, MJ, Kang, Y, Lee, HJ, Choi, B, Lee, JS, Kwon, D, Kim, SH, Sung, Y et al.. PYCR1 drives lung cancer progression through functional interactions with EGFR and TLR signaling pathways. Exp Mol Med 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41254241 .
  8. Guo, J, Chu, L, Ye, X, King, WL, Shao, J, Wang, Z, Liu, J, Chen, C, Yu, M. Low soil phosphorus and high symbiotic fungal richness inhibits plant aboveground biomass in fragmented forests in China. Commun Biol 2025; 8 (1): 1598. PubMed PMID:41254159 PubMed Central PMC12627806.
  9. Lin, YN, Hsu, YC, Wang, W, Yang, FL, Tu, YH, Wu, CC, Chia, SL, Lee, CH, Chin, YH, Chen, HH et al.. Plasma vitamin D levels in obese individuals with peptic ulcer disease from NAHSIT databank of Taiwan. Sci Rep 2025; 15 (1): 40513. PubMed PMID:41253959 PubMed Central PMC12627081.
  10. Wang, P, Wang, Z, Feng, F, Yin, L, Zhang, Y, Gao, Z, Chen, J, Zhang, P, Yuan, S, Ding, Q et al.. UHRF1 restricts HCoV-229E infection through epigenetic silencing of the viral receptor APN. Nat Commun 2025; 16 (1): 10085. PubMed PMID:41253770 PubMed Central PMC12627610.
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