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For University of Illinois Chicago Department of Surgery in 2015-2026, the graph shows 94 visible PIs and 120 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (57% of slots across 85 PIs; 85 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (22% of slots across 51 PIs; 51 labels), and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research as the leading topic (3% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is a healthy pattern, with enough links to reveal several interpretable groups rather than one undifferentiated component. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Nebojša Nick Knežević (66.1 weighted works; Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Stress Responses and Cortisol). The clearest collaboration lines are Nebojša Nick Knežević and Kenneth D. Candido (36 shared works, weight 25.2). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 60.4, around Surgery, Transplantation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, led by Scott Benken, Ivo Tzvetanov, Enrico Benedetti.