Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Illinois Chicago Department of Microbiology and Immunology is a 37-PI network with 32 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (32% of slots across 24 PIs; 24 labels), Immunology as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 labels), and Immune Cell Function and Interaction as the leading topic (5% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Jun Sun (72.9 weighted works; Gut microbiota and health, Vitamin D Research Studies); Deepak Shukla (60 weighted works; Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research). The clearest collaboration lines are Zheng W. Chen and Ling Shen (23 shared works, weight 10.4); Deepak Shukla and Afsar R. Naqvi (16 shared works, weight 9.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 31.5, around Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, led by Deepak Shukla, Afsar R. Naqvi, Lijun Rong.