Faculty

Christopher Li

Research Professor, Epidemiology

206-667-7444
cili@fhcrc.org

Education

MD Medicine, University of California (San Francisco), 2000
PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2003
MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2000

Contact

206-667-7444
cili@fhcrc.org

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Box 358080
1100 Fairview Ave N., M4-C308
P.O. 19024
Seattle, WA 98109
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Research Interests

Dr. Li is a cancer epidemiologist based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with research projects spanning cancer early detection/screening, etiology, and survivorship. He has significant expertise in cancer epidemiology and substantial experience in the design, leadership, and completion of multidisciplinary studies of cancer. Current research projects include: 1. A large population-based study of different molecular subtypes of breast cancer aimed at elucidating their risk factors and identifying novel subtype-specific tumor markers useful for predicting risk of disease recurrence (DOD Collaborative Innovator Award); 2. A nested case-control study of women with DCIS who did and did not go on to develop a second breast cancer aimed at developing novel epidemiologic, clinical, and molecular approaches for guiding clinical decision making for DCIS patients (R01); 3. Discovering and validating novel blood-based markers useful for the early detection of breast, colorectal, and ovarian cancers (U01); 4. Characterizing risk factors for second primary breast, lung, colorectal, and endometrial cancers among breast cancer survivors (R01); and 5. Discovering and validating novel biomarkers useful for assessing risk of recurrence among colorectal cancer survivors (R01 and U01). Selected leaderships activities include: 1. Serving as the co-PI of the Cancer Surveillance System (CSS), the Seattle-Puget Sound Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry, 2. Chairing the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program’s Integration Panel (FY 2017), and 3. Co-chairing the 2017 AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Age-related differences in employment, insurance, and financial hardship among colorectal cancer patients: a report from the ColoCare Study.
(2023 Mar 23)
J Cancer Surviv
Berghuijs KMVT, Kaddas HK, Trujillo G, Rouhani G, Chevrier A, Ose J, Shibata D, Toriola AT, Figueiredo JC, Peoples AR, Li CI, Hardikar S, Siegel EM, Gigic B, Schneider M, Ulrich CM, Kirchhoff AC

Combining Asian-European Genome-Wide Association Studies of Colorectal Cancer Improves Risk Prediction Across Race and Ethnicity.
(2023 Jan 19)
medRxiv
Thomas M, Su YR, Rosenthal EA, Sakoda LC, Schmit SL, Timofeeva MN, Chen Z, Fernandez-Rozadilla C, Law PJ, Murphy N, Carreras-Torres R, Diez-Obrero V, van Duijnhoven FJ, Jiang S, Shin A, Wolk A, Phipps AI, Burnett-Hartman A, Gsur A, Chan AT, Zauber AG, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Um CY, Tangen CM, Gignoux C, Newton C, Haiman CA, Qu C, Bishop DT, Buchanan DD, Crosslin DR, Conti DV, Kim DH, Hauser E, White E, Siegel E, Schumacher FR, Rennert G, Giles GG, Hampel H, Brenner H, Oze I, Oh JH, Lee JK, Schneider JL, Chang-Claude J, Kim J, Huyghe JR, Zheng J, Hampe J, Greenson J, Hopper JL, Palmer JR, Visvanathan K, Matsuo K, Matsuda K, Jung KJ, Li L, Marchand LL, Vodickova L, Bujanda L, Gunter MJ, Matejcic M, Jenkins MA, Slattery ML, D'Amato M, Wang M, Hoffmeister M, Woods MO, Kim M, Song M, Iwasaki M, Du M, Udaltsova N, Sawada N, Vodicka P, Campbell PT, Newcomb PA, Cai Q, Pearlman R, Pai RK, Schoen RE, Steinfelder RS, Haile RW, Vandenputtelaar R, Prentice RL, Küry S, Castellví-Bel S, Tsugane S, Berndt SI, Lee SC, Brezina S, Weinstein SJ, Chanock SJ, Jee SH, Kweon SS, Vadaparampil S, Harrison TA, Yamaji T, Keku TO, Vymetalkova V, Arndt V, Jia WH, Shu XO, Lin Y, Ahn YO, Stadler ZK, Van Guelpen B, Ulrich CM, Platz EA, Potter JD, Li CI, Meester R, Moreno V, Figueiredo JC, Casey G, Vogelaar IL, Dunlop MG, Gruber SB, Hayes RB, Pharoah PDP, Houlston RS, Jarvik GP, Tomlinson IP, Zheng W, Corley DA, Peters U, Hsu L

Posttranslational modifications induce autoantibodies with risk prediction capability in patients with small cell lung cancer.
(2023 Jan 11)
Sci Transl Med 15(678): eadd8469
Lastwika KJ, Kunihiro A, Solan JL, Zhang Y, Taverne LR, Shelley D, Rho JH, Randolph TW, Li CI, Grogan EL, Massion PP, Fitzpatrick AL, MacPherson D, Houghton AM, Lampe PD

Pre-Surgery Inflammatory and Angiogenesis Biomarkers as Predictors of 12-Month Cancer-Related Distress: Results from the ColoCare Study.
(2023 Mar 6)
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 32(3): 363-370
Lindley CL, Gigic B, Peoples AR, Han CJ, Lin T, Himbert C, Warby CA, Boehm J, Hardikar S, Ashworth A, Schneider M, Ulrich A, Schrotz-King P, Figueiredo JC, Li CI, Shibata D, Siegel EM, Toriola AT, Ulrich CM, Syrjala KL, Ose J

Cohort profile: Biomarkers related to folate-dependent one-carbon metabolism in colorectal cancer recurrence and survival - the FOCUS Consortium.
(2022 Dec 22)
BMJ Open 12(12): e062930
Gigic B, van Roekel E, Holowatyj AN, Brezina S, Geijsen AJMR, Ulvik A, Ose J, Koole JL, Damerell V, Kiblawi R, Gumpenberger T, Lin T, Kvalheim G, Koelsch T, Kok DE, van Duijnhoven FJ, Bours MJ, Baierl A, Li CI, Grady W, Vickers K, Habermann N, Schneider M, Kampman E, Ueland PM, Ulrich A, Weijenberg M, Gsur A, Ulrich C, FOCUS Consortium

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