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The 2015-2026 picture for University of Illinois Chicago Department of Pharmacology is a 57-PI network with 166 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (38% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 29 PIs; 29 labels), and Immune cells in cancer 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 top weighted PIs are Nebojša Nick Knežević (66.1 weighted works; Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Stress Responses and Cortisol). The strongest pairings are Asrar B. Malik and Jalees Rehman (53 shared works, weight 25.1); Viswanathan Natarajan and Panfeng Fu (40 shared works, weight 23.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 82.1, around Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, led by Asrar B. Malik, Dawood Darbar, Jalees Rehman.