Chunlei Zheng, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Chunlei Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He is also a Health Science Specialist at VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Zheng completed his PhD in Biophysics at Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he moved to Cleveland Clinic, where he received a postdoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association to study the protein trafficking in human diseases. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Zheng is a research scientist at Case Western Reserve University, where he received intensive biomedical informatics training.

With solid background in biology and medicine and expertise in genomics, computer science, and statistics, Dr. Zheng has great passion for data-driven biomedical discovery. In particular, he has great interest on developing/applying computational algorithm, machine learning and statistical modeling into large-scale biomedical data to facilitate disease understanding and drug discovery. Currently, his research focuses on using artificial intelligence (AI) on Alzheimer’s Disease and Cancer.

Publications

  • Published 4/1/2025

    Larsen JR, Zheng C, La J, Wu JT, Kelley M, Gaziano JM, Brophy M, Do NV, Kim DH, Driver JA, DuMontier C, Fillmore NR. Multimorbidity and Its Impact in Older U.S. Veterans Newly Treated for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Apr; 22(4):598-608. PMID: 39680869.

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  • Published 5/8/2024

    Ramos-Cejudo J, Corrigan JK, Zheng C, Swinnerton KN, Jacobson SR, La J, Betensky RA, Osorio RS, Madanes S, Pomara N, Iosifescu D, Brophy M, Do NV, Fillmore NR. Antidepressant exposure and long-term dementia risk in a nationwide retrospective study on US veterans with midlife major depressive disorder. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Jun; 20(6):4106-4114. PMID: 38717046.

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  • Published 1/25/2024

    Do NV, Elbers DC, Fillmore NR, Ajjarapu S, Bergstrom SJ, Bihn J, Corrigan JK, Dhond R, Dipietro S, Dolgin A, Feldman TC, Goryachev SD, Huhmann LB, La J, Marcantonio PA, McGrath KM, Miller SJ, Nguyen VQ, Schneeloch GR, Sung FC, Swinnerton KN, Tarren AH, Tosi HM, Valley D, Vo AD, Yildirim C, Zheng C, Zwolinski R, Sarosy GA, Loose D, Shannon C, Brophy MT. Matching Patients to Accelerate Clinical Trials (MPACT): Enabling Technology for Oncology Clinical Trial Workflow. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25; 310:1086-1090. PMID: 38269982.

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  • Published 7/10/2023

    Chen C, Luo L, Zheng C, Ding P, Liu H, Luo H. Self-prediction of relations in GO facilitates its quality auditing. J Biomed Inform. 2023 Aug; 144:104441. PMID: 37437682.

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  • Published 5/8/2023

    Placido D, Yuan B, Hjaltelin JX, Zheng C, Haue AD, Chmura PJ, Yuan C, Kim J, Umeton R, Antell G, Chowdhury A, Franz A, Brais L, Andrews E, Marks DS, Regev A, Ayandeh S, Brophy MT, Do NV, Kraft P, Wolpin BM, Rosenthal MH, Fillmore NR, Brunak S, Sander C. A deep learning algorithm to predict risk of pancreatic cancer from disease trajectories. Nat Med. 2023 May; 29(5):1113-1122. PMID: 37156936.

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Education

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
  • Shaanxi Normal University, BS

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