Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Microbiology and Immunology is a 49-PI network with 57 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (41% of slots across 39 PIs; 39 labels), Immunology as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Immune Cell Function and Interaction as the leading topic (8% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 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 David M. Margolis (16.1 weighted works; HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions); Ralph S. Baric (15.3 weighted works; Animal Virus Infections Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology). The clearest collaboration lines are Bruce A. Cairns and Robert Maile (12 shared works, weight 5.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 24.2, around Epidemiology, Immunology, Hepatology, led by Jenny P.‐Y. Ting, Blossom Damania, Lishan Su.