Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for University of California, San Diego Department of Bioengineering is a 61-PI network with 74 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (33% of slots across 38 PIs; 38 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 31 PIs; 31 labels), and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction as the leading topic (4% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 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 Robert N. Weinreb (42.6 weighted works; Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Retinal Diseases and Treatments); Bernhard Ø. Palsson (41.2 weighted works; Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology). The clearest collaboration lines are Bernhard Ø. Palsson and Adam M. Feist (27 shared works, weight 13.1); Bernhard Ø. Palsson and Jonathan M. Monk (30 shared works, weight 12.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 14 internal connections, weight 56.3, around Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biomedical Engineering, led by Bernhard Ø. Palsson, Rob Knight, Nathan E. Lewis; group 2 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 10, around Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Oncology, led by Pedro Cabrales, Trey Ideker, Prashant Mali.