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The 2024-2026 picture for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry is a 42-PI network with 32 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Chemistry as the leading field (22% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies as the leading topic (3% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Heather J. Kulik (29.9 weighted works; Machine Learning in Materials Science, Computational Drug Discovery Methods). The clearest collaboration lines are Robert J. Gilliard and Christopher C. Cummins (6 shared works, weight 3.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 10.6, around Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Heather J. Kulik, Yang Shao‐Horn, Robert J. Gilliard.