Professional Bio
Qiuyin Cai, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Cai's research program focuses on investigating the contribution of host susceptibility and lifestyle factors to the etiology and disparities of various cancers, particularly lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers. He has been both consistently and well-funded by the NIH and DOD since 2002. Currently, he is the PI/MPI for several large molecular/genetic epidemiology studies to identify genetic factors and biomarkers for cancer risks and disparities. The major theme of Dr. Cai's research program is to identify genetic and molecular markers as well as lifestyle and socioeconomic factors for cancer risks and disparities and to understand the potential mechanisms of cancer development and progression.
Dr. Cai serves as the Director of the Molecular Epidemiology Core Laboratory at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and is co-director of the Survey and Biospecimen Shared Resource at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He has extensive experience directing the biorepository operations of large cohorts and case-control studies and has directed genotyping assays, next-generation sequencing assays, biomarker assays, and in vitro functional assays for multiple large-scale genetic and molecular epidemiology studies.
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Education
MD - Shanghai Medical University, 1984
MS - Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 1990
PhD - University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2000
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Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
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777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307