Internal Medicine Department
Hematology Division

Thai M. Cao, MD

Email:    thai.cao@hsc.utah.edu

Education:

1990 – 1994    M.D., University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas City, KS

1987 – 1990    B.S. in Biology, University of California – Irvine, Irvine, California

Training:

2002 – 2003    Fellow in Bone Marrow Transplant, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California

1997 – 2002    Fellow in Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California

1994 – 1997    Intern/Resident in Internal Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas City, KS

Research Interests:

Transplant immunology and tolerance
Genetics of graft-versus-host disease

Recent Publications

  1. Cao TM, Wong RM, Sheehan K, Laport GG, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Johnston LJ, Shizuru JA, Negrin RS, Lowsky R. (2005). CD34, CD4, and CD8 cell doses do not influence engraftment, graft-versus-host disease, or survival following myeloablative human leukocyte antigen-identical peripheral blood allografting for hematologic malignancies. Exp Hematol, 33(3), 279-85.
  2. Scheffold C, Scheffold YC, Cao TM, Gworek J, Shizuru JA. (2005). Cytokines and cytotoxic pathways in engraftment resistance to purified allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells.  Biol Blood Marrow Transplant, 11(1), 1-12.
  3. BitMansour A, Cao TM, Chao S, Shashidhar S, Brown JM. (2005). Single infusion of myeloid progenitors reduces death from Aspergillus fumigatus following chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Blood, 105(9), 3535-7.
  4. Cao TM, Shizuru JA, Wong RM, Sheehan K, Laport GG, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Johnston LJ, Stuart MJ, Grumet FC, Negrin RS, Lowsky R. (2005). Engraftment and survival following reduced-intensity allogeneic peripheral blood hematopoietic cell transplantation is affected by CD8+ T-cell dose. Blood, 105(6), 2300-6.
  5. Li DH, Kumanogoh A, Cao TM, Parnes JR, Cullen JM. (2004). Woodchuck interleukin-6 gene: structure, characterization, and biologic activity. Gene, 342(1), 157-64.