Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of California, San Diego Department of Bioengineering is a 45-PI network with 26 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (30% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction as the leading topic (4% 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 Nicole F. Steinmetz (26.9 weighted works; Plant Virus Research Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions). The clearest collaboration lines are Bernhard Ø. Palsson and Daniel C. Zielinski (15 shared works, weight 7.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 5.6, around Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, led by Jiang Du, Lingyan Shi, Zeinab Jahed.