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. Kwan, RYC, Lee, JLC, Su, JJ, Aree-Ue, S, Roopsawang, I, Lou, VWQ. The associations of technology acceptance and social networks with depressive symptoms of community-dwelling older people: A cross-sectional study. Geriatr Nurs 2026; 70 : 104069. PubMed PMID:42119249 .
  2. Kermanshah, A, Ozturk, A, Saleh, M, Alvo, J, Phillibert, Z, Thornton, LM, Datta, J, Alessandrino, F. Colorectal liver metastases: imaging strategies for diagnosis, local treatment planning and systemic treatment response. Eur J Radiol 2026; 201 : 112858. PubMed PMID:42119162 .
  3. Wang, S, Han, H, Hu, X, Hong, K. Pathogenesis, Diagnostic Advances, and Therapeutic Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Narrative Review. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2026; 21 : 599148. PubMed PMID:42117051 PubMed Central PMC13157814.
  4. Verkhratsky, A, Lee, CJ, Chun, H, Göritz, C, Harkany, T, Lee, JH, Lee, S, Lindskog, M, Koh, W, Mulder, J et al.. Author Correction: Curing the brain: in search for new astrocyte-specific therapies. Exp Mol Med 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42115334 .
  5. Yamamoto, KK, Cantos, A, Chun, DG, Cruz, T, Martinez, D, Savage-Dunn, C. Suppression of the fat storage defect of C. elegans dbl-1/BMP signaling mutants correlates with improved survival on a bacterial pathogen. MicroPubl Biol 2026; 2026 : . PubMed PMID:42112235 PubMed Central PMC13149954.
  6. Li, J, Lai, J, Ni, F, Xie, Y, Tang, E, Tang, Y, Wang, C. State-Level Brain Dynamics Reveal Neural Correlates of Negative-Mode Rigidity in Non-suicidal Self-injury. Neuroimage 2026; : 121990. PubMed PMID:42107618 .
  7. Saraei, R, Heine, G, Osmancik, P, Schewel, J, Sandri, M, Landmesser, U, Schwenger, V, Latus, J, Bekeredjian, R, Chun, J et al.. Left Atrial Appendage closure in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and end stage chronic KIDNEY disease: Rationale and design of the prospective randomized LAA-KIDNEY trial. Am Heart J 2026; : 107474. PubMed PMID:42107551 .
  8. Cao, Y, Li, D, Bao, L, Ding, X, Guo, Y, Ni, X, Liu, Y. Exploring the prognostic role of senescence-related genes in gastric cancer through multi-omics integration and machine learning. Hum Genomics 2026; : . PubMed PMID:42106891 .
  9. Wang, J, Qiu, X, Wu, X. Glucose Levels and Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor May Partially Mediate the Association Between Genetic Liability to Diabetes and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. World Neurosurg 2026; : 125029. PubMed PMID:42105916 .
  10. Zhang, L, Li, D, Tang, Y, Xie, Y. Andrographis restrains the progression of colorectal cancer by inhibiting the KLF3/LEMD1 axis. Funct Integr Genomics 2026; 26 (1): . PubMed PMID:42105037 .
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