Cai Lab 

Cai lab is based in the Department of Biosystems and Engineering (D-BSSE) in ETH Zürich and the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH).

We are quantitative geneticists working on methods and their applications to understanding the nature of psychiatric disorders, with a particular focus on major depressive disorder (MDD). Our research focuses on maximizing and verifying the utility of data from different sources for genetic investigations into MDD using machine learning and statistical approaches, quantitative genetics investigations into the genetic basis of MDD heterogeneity, and functional genomics investigations into their molecular mechanisms.