Report summary

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Bioengineering in 2021-2023 reads as a 63-PI network with 83 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (25% of slots across 31 PIs; 31 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research as the leading topic (4% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 19 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Jun Chen (89.2 weighted works; Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Conducting polymers and applications); Aydogan Özcan (84.9 weighted works; Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Optical Network Technologies). The strongest pairings are Jun Chen and Xiao Xiao (71 shared works, weight 36.8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 55.8, around Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, led by Jun Chen, Ximin He, Xiao Xiao.