Tianx Cai

Tianxi Cai, ScD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS)

10 Shattuck Street, Room 434, Boston, MA 02115

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CELEHS

Tianxi Cai is a major player in developing analytical tools for mining EHR data and predictive modeling with biomedical data. She provides statistical leadership on several large-scale projects, including the NIH-funded Undiagnosed Diseases Network at DBMI. Cai's research lab develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for several areas including clinical trials, real world evidence, and personalized medicine using genomic and phenomic data. Cai received her ScD in Biostatistics at Harvard and was an assistant professor at the University of Washington before returning to Harvard as a faculty member in 2002.


DBMI Research Areas
Rare variant association test in family-based sequencing studies.
Authors: Wang X, Zhang Z, Morris N, Cai T, Lee S, Wang C, Yu TW, Walsh CA, Lin X.
Brief Bioinform
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Association of intracranial aneurysm rupture with smoking duration, intensity, and cessation.
Authors: Can A, Castro VM, Ozdemir YH, Dagen S, Yu S, Dligach D, Finan S, Gainer V, Shadick NA, Murphy S, Cai T, Savova G, Dammers R, Weiss ST, Du R.
Neurology
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Apolipoprotein C-III and High-Density Lipoprotein Subspecies Defined by Apolipoprotein C-III in Relation to Diabetes Risk.
Authors: Aroner SA, Yang M, Li J, Furtado JD, Sacks FM, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Cai T, Jensen MK.
Am J Epidemiol
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A Computable Phenotype Improves Cohort Ascertainment in a Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Registry.
Authors: Geva A, Gronsbell JL, Cai T, Cai T, Murphy SN, Lyons JC, Heinz MM, Natter MD, Patibandla N, Bickel J, Mullen MP, Mandl KD.
J Pediatr
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Sequence robust association test for familial data.
Authors: Dai W, Yang M, Wang C, Cai T.
Biometrics
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Learning a Comorbidity-Driven Taxonomy of Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension.
Authors: Ong MS, Mullen MP, Austin ED, Szolovits P, Natter MD, Geva A, Cai T, Kong SW, Mandl KD.
Circ Res
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Origins of lymphatic and distant metastases in human colorectal cancer.
Authors: Naxerova K, Reiter JG, Brachtel E, Lennerz JK, van de Wetering M, Rowan A, Cai T, Clevers H, Swanton C, Nowak MA, Elledge SJ, Jain RK.
Science
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IMPROVING EFFICIENCY IN BIOMARKER INCREMENTAL VALUE EVALUATION UNDER TWO-PHASE DESIGNS.
Authors: Zheng Y, Brown M, Lok A, Cai T.
Ann Appl Stat
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Associations of anthropometry and lifestyle factors with HDL subspecies according to apolipoprotein C-III.
Authors: Koch M, Furtado JD, Jiang GZ, Gray BE, Cai T, Sacks F, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Jensen MK.
J Lipid Res
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Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal Gene Influence on HIV Disease Progression and HIV-1C Acquisition in Southern Africa.
Authors: Xie W, Agniel D, Shevchenko A, Malov SV, Svitin A, Cherkasov N, Baum MK, Campa A, Gaseitsiwe S, Bussmann H, Makhema J, Marlink R, Novitsky V, Lee TH, Cai T, O'Brien SJ, Essex M.
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses
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