Dr. Clement Zai is a staff scientist with Molecular Science at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, with associate graduate membership in the Institute of Medical Science and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology.
He received his PhD in Medical Science at the University of Toronto, examining genes for schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia. He later received his MPH in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. He studied the genetics of suicide on a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
Areas of Research
Dr. Zai’s general research area includes the identification of biomarkers and elucidation of the biological mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and treatment outcomes through genetic analyses. His research approaches include genome-wide association studies, polygenic risk score analyses, meta-analyses, next-generation sequence analyses, and machine learning methods.
Publications
View Dr. Zai’s publications on PubMed.