Chair, Department of Genetics University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma We are pleased to announce that the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has named Jun Li, PhD as its Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Genome Sciences, pending approval from the OU Board of Regents. Dr. Li will step into his role in spring of 2025.Dr. Li comes to the OU College of Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School, where he served as a professor of human genetics and a professor and associate chair of the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. Dr. Li’s research activities have been extensively funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he has published more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed publications. In recent years, his teams have studied animal models of metabolic health, the genetics and epigenetics of drug abuse, cell and developmental biology of the reproductive system, and “multi-omic” analyses of human response to exercise, often involving careful integration of several types of biological data to better understand complex processes. In his previous role, he recently led discussions on the future of generative artificial intelligence in biomedical research.For his innovations in computational biology and his leadership in fostering interdisciplinary genomic research, Li has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Society of Cancer Research, the International Society for Computational Biology and the American Statistical Association.Dr. Li’s completed his undergraduate studies in physics at Peking University in China, after which he earned his doctorate in biophysics and electrophysiology at the California Institute of Technology. He completed post-doctoral work in genetics and genomics at Stanford University.You may read the full press release about Dr. Li’s appointment here.Ariannah Mirick and Randi Herrick led this search with Jane McInerney.
