Titles:
Visiting Research Assistant Professor

Contact:
Email: gaoxmx@ccm.upmc.edu

Degrees:

Major Honors/Awards:

• Student Travel Award from Genetic Toxicology Association, Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) 33rd Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2002
• Outstanding student award from Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 2004

Current Research Interest:

• Brain injury in children and adults
• Inflicted childhood neurotrauma/child abuse
• Proteomics
  

Publications:

• Wei-Min Gao, Phouthone Keohavong. Analysis of K-ras and p53 Mutations in Sputum Samples. In: Molecular Toxicology Protocols, Phouthone Keohavong & Stephen Grant (eds.). Humana Press, USA. 2004, p217-234
• Wei-Min Gao, Marjorie Romkes, Richard D. Day, Jill M. Siegfried, James D. Luketich, Hussam H. Mady, Mona F. Melhem and Phouthone Keohavong. Association of the DNA repair gene XPD Asp312Asn polymorphism with p53 gene mutations in tobacco-related non-small-cell lung cancer. Carcinogenesis, 2003, 24:1671-1676
• Wei-Min Gao, Hussam H. Mady, Guo-Ying Yu, Jill M. Siegfried, James D. Luketich, Mona F. Melhem, and Phouthone Keohavong. Comparison of p53 mutations between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: unique spectra involving G to A transitions and G to T transversions in both histologic types. Lung Cancer, 2003, 40:141-150
• Wei-Min Gao, Hui-Min Lu, Jin-Chan Dong, Xiang-Yan Zhou, Larry W Jenkins and C Edward Dixon. Postnatal Growth, Neurobehavioral and Neurophysiologic Changes of Prenatal Low-Dose Beta Radiation from Tritiated Water in Mice. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 2002, 24(2): 247-254
• Larry Jenkins, C Edward Dixon, Grant Peters, Wei-Min Gao, Xiao-Peng Zhang, P David Adelson and Patrick Kochanek. Cell signaling: serine/threonine protein kinases and traumatic brain injury. In: Brain Injury, Robert S.B. Clark & Patrick Kochanek (eds.). 2001, p163-180