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
Mortality and extraintestinal cancers in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Cheng SC, Cai T, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
J Crohns Colitis
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Serum inflammatory markers and risk of colorectal cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cheng SC, Cai T, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
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Association between low density lipoprotein and rheumatoid arthritis genetic factors with low density lipoprotein levels in rheumatoid arthritis and non-rheumatoid arthritis controls.
Authors: Liao KP, Diogo D, Cui J, Cai T, Okada Y, Gainer VS, Murphy SN, Gupta N, Mirel D, Ananthakrishnan AN, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Raychaudhuri S, Churchill S, Kohane I, Karlson EW, Plenge RM.
Ann Rheum Dis
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Association between reduced plasma 25-hydroxy vitamin D and increased risk of cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cheng SC, Cai T, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
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Population-level evidence for an autoimmune etiology of epilepsy.
Authors: Ong MS, Kohane IS, Cai T, Gorman MP, Mandl KD.
JAMA Neurol
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Gender differences in the effect of occupational endotoxin exposure on impaired lung function and death: the Shanghai Textile Worker Study.
Authors: Lai PS, Hang JQ, Zhang FY, Lin X, Zheng BY, Dai HL, Su L, Cai T, Christiani DC.
Occup Environ Med
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Landmark Estimation of Survival and Treatment Effect in a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Authors: Parast L, Tian L, Cai T.
J Am Stat Assoc
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Omnibus risk assessment via accelerated failure time kernel machine modeling.
Authors: Sinnott JA, Cai T.
Biometrics
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Lipid and lipoprotein levels and trend in rheumatoid arthritis compared to the general population.
Authors: Liao KP, Cai T, Gainer VS, Cagan A, Murphy SN, Liu C, Churchill S, Shaw SY, Kohane I, Solomon DH, Plenge RM, Karlson EW.
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
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Adopting nested case-control quota sampling designs for the evaluation of risk markers.
Authors: Zheng Y, Cai T, Pepe MS.
Lifetime Data Anal
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