Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of Minnesota Department of Surgery is a 39-PI network with 59 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (47% of slots across 30 PIs; 30 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments as the leading topic (4% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 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 Paolo Goffredo (21.2 weighted works; Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments). The clearest collaboration lines are Abraham J. Matar and Vanessa Humphreville (7 shared works, weight 4.8); Paolo Goffredo and Wolfgang B. Gaertner (8 shared works, weight 4.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 24.1, around Oncology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, led by Paolo Goffredo, Rui Zhang, Genevieve B. Melton; group 2 with 7 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 25.8, around Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transplantation, led by Abraham J. Matar, Timothy L. Pruett, Arthur J. Matas.