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The 2015-2026 picture for Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics is a 95-PI network with 282 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (31% of slots across 56 PIs; 56 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (10% of slots across 24 PIs; 24 labels), and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques as the leading topic (4% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Josef Coresh (83.9 weighted works; Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Dialysis and Renal Disease Management); William Checkley (77.7 weighted works; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Air Quality and Health Impacts). The strongest pairings are Peter Abadir and Jeremy Walston (48 shared works, weight 23.3). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 137.3, around Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physiology, Nephrology, led by Josef Coresh, Frank R. Lin, Peter Abadir; group 2 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 56.2, around Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Statistics and Probability, led by William Checkley, Argye E. Hillis, Martin A. Lindquist.