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The 2023-2026 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics is a 38-PI network with 47 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Mathematics as the leading field (23% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels), Statistics and Probability as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques as the leading topic (9% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 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 Jianwen Cai (22.9 weighted works; Statistical Methods and Inference, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques). The strongest pairings are Yun Li and Quan Sun (21 shared works, weight 6.6). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 20.6, around Genetics, Statistics and Probability, Molecular Biology, led by Yun Li, Hongtu Zhu, Xianming Tan; group 2 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 9.8, around Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology, led by Jianwen Cai, Michael G. Hudgens, Michael I. Love.