Cai Chen

Cai Chen is a Principal Scientist at Merck, where they specialize in oncology genomics and data science. They previously held the position of Associate Principal Scientist at Merck from 2019 to 2022 and worked as a Bioinformatics Scientist at Admera Health from 2018 to 2019. Cai has also served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and began their career as a Research Assistant and Graduate Research Associate at The Ohio State University. They earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics from The Ohio State University after completing their Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Science and Technology of China.