Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of California, Los Angeles Department of Surgery David Geffen is a 24-PI network with 24 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (64% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (22% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Breast Cancer Treatment Studies as the leading topic (4% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 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 Peyman Benharash (66.8 weighted works; Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments). The clearest collaboration lines are James X. Wu and Masha J. Livhits (7 shared works, weight 3.4); Peyman Benharash and Timothy R. Donahue (6 shared works, weight 3.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 18.1, around Oncology, Surgery, Cancer Research, led by Peyman Benharash, Timothy R. Donahue, Nimmi S. Kapoor.