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Michigan State University Department of Chemistry in 2015-2026 reads as a 90-PI network with 114 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Chemistry as the leading field (21% of slots across 39 PIs; 39 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 28 PIs; 28 labels), and Protein Structure and Dynamics as the leading topic (3% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Xuefei Huang (75.1 weighted works; Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis). The strongest pairings are Robert E. Maleczka and Milton R. Smith (23 shared works, weight 12.7). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 45, around Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, led by Robert L. LaDuca, Marcos Dantus, Greg M. Swain.