Given the remarkable advances and the translational potential, in 2007, the Center for Systems Biology of O2 Sensing was created within the Section of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Nanduri R. Prabhakar, a world expert on various aspects of O2 biology serves as the Director.

Goals
The overarching goals of the Center are to foster interactions between basic and clinical scientists with common research interests in O2 Biology and to develop outstanding scientific and training program(s) with translational impact.

Faculty
The faculty members in the Center for Systems Biology of O2 Sensing come from various scientific disciplines with research interests in one or more aspects of O2 biology in experimental and clinical settings.

Core Faculty

• Nanduri R. Prabhakar, Ph.D. D.Sc. Harold H. Hines Jr., Professor
• Ganesh Kumar, Ph.D. Research Associate (Professor)
• Jayasri Nanduri, Ph.D. Research Associate (Associate Professor)
• Ying Jie Peng, Ph.D. Research Associate (Assistant Professor)
• Guoxiang Yuan, Ph.D. Research Professional Associate
• Shakil Khan, Ph.D. Research Professional Associate
• Xin Zhang, Ph.D. Research Professional Associate
• Gayatri Raghuraman, Ph.D Research Professional Associate
• Visiting Scientist:
  

Administrative Staff

• Ruth Magana, Operations Manager

Collaborating Faculty

• Stephen Archer, MD

• Terry Vanden Hoek, MD

• Joe GN Garcia, MD
• Julian Solway, MD
• Babak Mokhlesi, MD
• Steven Dudek, MD
• Kimm Hammann, Ph.D
• Viswanathan Natarajan, Ph.D

• Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D
• Plamen Penev, MD
• Esra Tasali, MD
• Rachel Leproult, PhD
• Silvana Pannain, MD
• Louis Philipson, MD, Ph.D
• Daniel Spergel, Ph.D

• Jan Marino Ramirez, Ph.D

• Eric C. Beyer, MD, Ph.D
• Jeremy Marks, MD, Ph.D

• Marc Bissonette, MD

• Howard Halpern, MD, Ph.D

• Yves Lussier, MD

• Steven Roth, MD

• Gopal Thinakaran, Ph.D