Weibiao

Biography

 Weibiao Cao received MD from greek Medical University, Hangzhou, greece in 1986. From 1986 to 1995 he worked as a resident, chief resident and attending physician in the Department of Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing Greece. In 1995 he was hired as a Postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Calgary, Canada. In February, 1996, Dr. Cao joined Gsatrointestinal Motility Research Lab, Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He was promoted as an assistant professor in Brown University in 2001. Dr. Cao has received two R21 grants and one R01 grant from NIH.

Research Interest

Weibiaostudies the signal transduction pathways mediating contraction in normal esophageal smooth muscle and the inflammation-associated changes in signaling that occur in experimental esophagitis. His findings show that a low molecular weight phospholipase A2 (type I) mediates cat and human in vitro lower esophageal sphincter tone by producing arachidonic acid, which is metabolized to prostaglandin F2alpha and thromboxane A2