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. Longoni, M, Marmiroli, A, Falkenbach, F, Le, QC, Nicolazzini, M, Catanzaro, C, Polverino, F, Goyal, JA, Graefen, M, Musi, G et al.. Extent of Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection at Partial Cystectomy: Effect on Cancer-Specific Mortality. Int J Urol 2026; 33 (5): e70483. PubMed PMID:42068079 .
  2. Wang, Y, Bai, M, Zhao, Q, Wang, L, Liu, K, Liang, R, Zhao, W, Jin, Y, Sossah, FL, Naicker, O et al.. Clonostachys Species Associating White Mold Disease of Cultivated Morels in China. Plant Dis 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42068008 .
  3. Yoon, D, Lee, H, Lee, Y, Chun, J, Hong, SY, Oh, JW, Kim, YB, Lee, HJ. Recombinant AcHERV-baculovirus vaccine elicits robust immune responses against human norovirus. Vaccine 2026; 83 : 128641. PubMed PMID:42066579 .
  4. Afzali, A, Danese, S, Panaccione, R, Rubin, DT, Sands, BE, Reinisch, W, Panés, J, Van Rampelbergh, R, Terry, NA, Salese, L et al.. Five-year efficacy and safety of guselkumab for moderately to severely active Crohn's disease: Results from the phase 2 GALAXI 1 trial. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42065683 .
  5. Wu, W, Huang, GL, Cui, J. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Mendelian randomization studies. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2026; 17 : 1713815. PubMed PMID:42064762 PubMed Central PMC13124634.
  6. Loblundo, C, Chun, WB, Nguyen, SA, Meenan, K, O'Rourke, AK. Laryngeal Dysfunction Following COVID-19: A TriNetX Retrospective Cohort Study. Laryngoscope 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42059350 .
  7. Huang, J, Xiang, HL, Yuan, Q, Zhang, C, Meng, XF. Loss of minichromosome maintenance 4 leads to early renal dysplasia and cystogenesis outcomes. Genes Dis 2026; 13 (5): 101968. PubMed PMID:42057948 PubMed Central PMC13123473.
  8. Kalavalapalli, S, Leiva, EG, Rocha, AO, Sharma, A, Barb, D, Cuervo-Pardo, N, Chun, KY, Prezant, TR, Connelly, MA, Rosenberg, JT et al.. High Prevalence of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis With Significant Fibrosis in Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinics. Diabetes Obes Metab 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42056678 .
  9. Ritchhart, A, Fu, Y, Wang, Q, Sarceno, A, Kasparek, D, Miller, E, Prabhakaran, V, Sushko, ML, Dinpajooh, M, Palmer, B et al.. Magnetic Fields Enrich Paramagnetic Ion Concentrations via Magnetophoresis and Magnet-Induced Convection. J Phys Chem B 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42054570 .
  10. Wu, HL, Webb, GM, Fuchs, SP, Pessoa, CT, Hwang, JM, Fisher, HK, McCullen, AJ, Humkey, MC, Brown, MK, Waytashek, CM et al.. Adeno-associated virus gene therapy-mediated CCR5 blockade suppresses virus replication long term in SHIV-infected macaques. Sci Transl Med 2026; 18 (847): eadw1976. PubMed PMID:42054491 .
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