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. 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 .
  2. 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 .
  3. 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 .
  4. 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 .
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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 .
  10. 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 .
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