Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of California, Davis Department of Medicine and Epidemiology is a 25-PI network with 19 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (28% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), Small Animals as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels), and Veterinary Equine Medical Research as the leading topic (7% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Esteban Soto (13 weighted works; Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Microbial infections and disease research). The clearest collaboration lines are Jessica M. Morgan and Jennifer M. Cassano (4 shared works, weight 1.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 6.6, around Nature and Landscape Conservation, Small Animals, Epidemiology, led by Esteban Soto, Hugues Beaufrère, Krista A. Keller.