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

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
Regulation of the angiopoietin-like protein 3 gene by LXR.
Authors: Kaplan R, Zhang T, Hernandez M, Gan FX, Wright SD, Waters MG, Cai TQ.
J Lipid Res
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Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces expression of ABCA1 but not ABCG1 via an LXR-independent pathway.
Authors: Kaplan R, Gan X, Menke JG, Wright SD, Cai TQ.
J Lipid Res
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Issues in genomic screening: critical values, sample sizes, and the ability to detect linkage.
Authors: Rogus JJ, Cai T, Wei LJ.
Genet Epidemiol
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