Report summary

Columbia University Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2024-2026 reads as a 45-PI network with 22 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (33% of slots across 30 PIs; 30 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Extracellular vesicles in disease as the leading topic (5% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is of concern for a 45-PI roster; the strongest pairings may be carrying much of the visible collaboration. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Ke Cheng (15.4 weighted works; Extracellular vesicles in disease, MicroRNA in disease regulation); Kam W. Leong (13.9 weighted works; Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Virus-based gene therapy research). The strongest pairings are Gerard A. Ateshian and Clark T. Hung (6 shared works, weight 3.8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 16.4, around Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Biomedical Engineering, led by Ke Cheng, Kam W. Leong, Gordana Vunjak‐Novakovic.