Dr. Weimin Gao is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology and the Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University System. He received his M.D. in Preventive Medicine from the Nanjing Medical University in the People’s Republic of China. His M.P.H. in Occupational Medicine & Toxicology is from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing, China. He earned an M.S. in Biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh. His Ph.D. in Environmental & Occupational Health & Toxicology is from the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh as well. He was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics/Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan’s School of Medicine. He was a Research Assistant, Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the Department of Toxicology, National Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene, Ministry of Health in Beijing. He was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, at the University of Pittsburgh. His current research focuses on molecular epidemiology, early detection of cancers, cancer chemoprevention, proteomics and metabolomics. Dr. Gao has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a member of Society of Toxicology (SOT), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and US Human Proteome Organization (US HUPO). 

Billam M, Mukhi S, Tang L, Gao W, Wang JS. Toxic response indicators of microcystin-LR in F344 rats following a single-dose treatment. Toxicon. 2008; in press

Tang L, Tang M, Xu L, Luo H, Huang T, Yu J, Zhang L, Gao W, Cox SB, Wang JS. Modulation of aflatoxin biomarkers in human blood and urine by green tea polyphenols intervention. Carcinogenesis. 2008;29(2):411-7.

Wang JS, Luo H, Wang P, Tang L, Yu J, Huang T, Cox S, Gao W. Validation of green tea polyphenol biomarkers in a phase II human intervention trial. Food Chem Toxicol. 2008;46(1):232-40.

Liu Y, Gao W, Siegfried JM, Weissfeld JL, Luketich JD, Keohavong P. Promoter methylation of RASSF1A and DAPK and mutations of K-ras, p53, and EGFR in lung tumors from smokers and never-smokers. BMC Cancer. 2007;7:74.

Sun G, Wang S, Hu X, Su J, Huang T, Yu J, Tang L, Gao W, Wang JS. Fumonisin B1 contamination of home-grown corn in high-risk areas for esophageal and liver cancer in China. Food Addit Contam. 2007;24(2):181-5.

Gao WM, Chadha MS, Berger RP, Omenn GS, Allen DL, Pisano M, Adelson PD, Clark RS, Jenkins LW, Kochanek PM. A gel-based proteomic comparison of human cerebrospinal fluid between inflicted and non-inflicted pediatric traumatic brain injury.
J Neurotrauma. 2007;24(1):43-53.

Omenn GS, Menon R, Adamski M, Blackwell T, Haab BB, Gao W, States DJ. The human plasma and serum proteome. In V. Thongbooonkerd (ed), Proteomics of Human Body Fluids: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Humana Press, Totowa NJ, USA 2007, pp. 195-224.

Kochanek AR, Kline AE, Gao WM, Chadha M, Lai Y, Clark RS, Dixon CE, Jenkins LW.
Gel-based hippocampal proteomic analysis 2 weeks following traumatic brain injury to immature rats using controlled cortical impact. Dev Neurosci. 2006;28(4-5):410-9.

Wang Z, Tang L, Sun G, Tang Y, Xie Y, Wang S, Hu X, Gao W, Cox SB, Wang JS. Etiological study of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in an endemic region: a population-based case control study in Huaian, China. BMC Cancer. 2006;6:287.

Gao WM, Romkes M, Siegfried JM, Luketich JD, Keohavong P. Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes XPD and XRCC1 and p53 mutations in lung carcinomas of never-smokers. Mol Carcinog. 2006;45(11):828-32.

Gao WM, Chadha MS, Kline AE, Clark RS, Kochanek PM, Dixon CE, Jenkins LW. Immunohistochemical analysis of histone H3 acetylation and methylation--evidence for altered epigenetic signaling following traumatic brain injury in immature rats. Brain Res. 2006;1070(1):31-4.

Luo H, Cox SB, Gao W, Yu J, Tang L, Wang JS. Metabolic Profiling in validation of plasma biomarkers for green tea polyphenols. Metabolomics. 2006;2(4):235-41.

Berger RP, Hymel K, Gao WM. The use of biomarkers after inflicted traumatic brain injury: insight into etiology, pathophysiology and biochemistry. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2006;7(3):186-93.

Gao WM, Kuick R, Orchekowski RP, Misek DE, Qiu J, Greenberg AK, Rom WN, Brenner DE, Omenn GS, Haab BB, Hanash SM. Distinctive serum protein profiles involving abundant proteins in lung cancer patients based upon antibody microarray analysis. BMC Cancer. 2005;5:110.