Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for University of Illinois Chicago Department of Surgery is a 35-PI network with 16 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (52% of slots across 29 PIs; 29 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (23% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 labels), and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers as the leading topic (3% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Daniel R. Principe (18.8 weighted works; Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, DNA Repair Mechanisms); Nebojša Nick Knežević (18.8 weighted works; Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Stress Responses and Cortisol). The clearest collaboration lines are Francisco Schlottmann and Mario Masrur (22 shared works, weight 11.7); Daniel R. Principe and Ajay Rana (13 shared works, weight 9.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 5 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 15.3, around Surgery, Gastroenterology, Cell Biology, led by Francisco Schlottmann, Richard D. Minshall, Antonio Gangemi.