Na Cai

My research interests lie in understanding the genetic and metabolic basis of neuropsychiatric diseases, with a particular focus on the heterogeneous etiology of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). I did my PhD on genetics of MDD at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in University of Oxford and the effects of the disease on levels of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Prior to coming to HPC I spent three and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), where I worked on the impact of phenotyping on genetic studies of MDD and mtDNA effects on molecular markers of metabolism. In February 2025 I moved with my group to D-BSSE at ETH Zurich, where I work now as an assistant professor of computational medical genomics.