Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for Purdue University West Lafayette Department of Comparative Pathobiology is a 49-PI network with 92 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (31% of slots across 32 PIs; 32 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (10% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Veterinary Oncology Research as the leading topic (3% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Arun K. Bhunia (41 weighted works; Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety, Biosensors and Analytical Detection); Mohamed N. Seleem (40.9 weighted works; Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities). The clearest collaboration lines are Andrea Pires dos Santos and Alexander Welker Biondo (21 shared works, weight 9.8); Mohamed N. Seleem and Shankar Thangamani (11 shared works, weight 9.2). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 31.6, around Parasitology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, led by Arun K. Bhunia, Andrea Pires dos Santos, Alexander Welker Biondo.