The Research Division of the Department of Anesthesiology includes several research groups. There is a strong interest in understanding mechanisms that relate hypoxia and inflammation (Center of Hypoxia and Inflammation Research, CHaIR). In addition, basic, translational and clinical research work from the Department is focused on improving parental nutrition for critically ill patients (Translational Pharmacology and PharmacoNutrition Laboratory, TPN). Moreover, our Department is the home of the Animal Imaging Center for the Colorado Cancer Center. Here, scientists from our Department are developing physiologically-based imaging end-points (MRI and PET/CT) for inflammation, cancer and response to novel anti-cancer therapies (Serkova Laboratory). Finally, a long-term focus of the Department has been the development of pharmacodynamic and pharmakokinetic assays to study a wide range of drugs that are being used in perioperative medicine, both in adult patients and the pediatric population (Bioanalytics, Christians Laboratory).