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The 2015-2017 picture for University of Chicago Department of Surgery is a 62-PI network with 64 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (59% of slots across 55 PIs; 55 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 28 PIs; 28 labels), and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 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 Yusuke Nakamura (19.2 weighted works; Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics). The clearest collaboration lines are Valluvan Jeevanandam and Takeyoshi Ota (56 shared works, weight 12.3); Raymon H. Grogan and Peter Angelos (20 shared works, weight 9.7). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 9.9, around Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, led by Mark K. Ferguson, Marco G. Patti, Wickii T. Vigneswaran.