Profile

Education and Research
09/89-07/94 MD candidate at Beijing University of School of Medicine, PR China.
07/94-09/98 Research Assistant at lab of neurobiology at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310031, PR China.
02/01-08/03 Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
09/98-06/05 Ph.D. Student of Neuropharmacology and Physiology at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310031, PR China.
Assitant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Zhejiang University, 310031, PR China.
11/08-04/09 Visiting scholar at Dalton Cardiovascular Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA

Selected publications
1.Wei-Ping Zhang, Hua Hu, Lei Zhang, Wei Ding, Hong-Tian Yao, Ke-Da Chen, Wen-Wen Sheng, Zhong Chen, Er-Qing Wei. Expression of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1 in human traumatic brain injury and brain tumors. Neuroscience letters, 2004, 363: 247-251.
2.Wei-Ping Zhang, Ming Ou-Yang, Steven A. Thomas. Potency of Catecholamines and other L-tyrosine Derivatives at the Cloned Mouse Adrenergic Receptors, Neuropharmacology, 2004; 47:438-449.
3.Charles F. Murchison, Xiao-Yan Zhang, Wei-Ping Zhang, Ming Ouyang, Anee Lee and Steven A. Thomas. A specific role for norepinephrine in memory retrieval. Cell, 2004, 117: 131-143.
4.Wei-Ping Zhang, Charles F. Murchison, John F. Guzowski, Steven A. Thomas. Mapping contextual memory retrieval and its dependence on norepinephrine. Learning & Memory; 2005, 12(3): 239-47.
5.Xiao-Jia Huang, Wei-Ping Zhang, Cheng-Tan Li, Wen-Zhen Shi, San-Hua Fang, Yun-Bi Lu Zhong Chen and Er-Qing Wei. Activation of CysLT Receptors Induces Astrocyte Proliferation and Death after Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation. Glia, 2008, Jan 1, 56: 27-37.
6.Cheng-Tan Li, Wei-Ping Zhang, Yun-Bi Lu, San-Hua Fang, Yu-Mei Yuan, Lin-Lin Qi, Li-Hui Zhang, Xiao-Jia Huang, Lei Zhang, Zhong Chen, Er-Qing Wei EQ(2009). Oxygen-glucose deprivation activates 5-lipoxygenase mediated by oxidant stress through p38 MAPK pathway in PC12 cells. J Neuroscience Research, 87: 991-1001.
7.Li-Hua Xu, Li-Yuan Zhang, San-Hua Fang, Yun-Bi Lu, Er-Qing Wei, Wei-Ping Zhang*. Involvement of cysteinyl leukotriene receptors in angiogenesis in rat thoracic aortic rings. Die Pharmazie, 20091027submitted, 20091128 accepted.