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The 2022-2026 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics is a 45-PI network with 73 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Mathematics as the leading field (24% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Statistics and Probability as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Statistical Methods and Inference as the leading topic (8% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 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 Yun Li (31.9 weighted works; Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation). The strongest pairings are Yun Li and Quan Sun (28 shared works, weight 10.9); Baiming Zou and Fei Zou (15 shared works, weight 9.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 25.3, around Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Psychology, led by Jianwen Cai, Xianming Tan, Donglin Zeng; group 2 with 8 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 19.1, around Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, led by Michael I. Love, Di Wu, Baiming Zou.