Report summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Microbiology and Immunology in 2015-2026 reads as a 118-PI network with 393 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (39% of slots across 87 PIs; 87 labels), Immunology as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 37 PIs; 37 labels), and Immune Cell Function and Interaction as the leading topic (4% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 27 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Ralph S. Baric (86.2 weighted works; Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research). The strongest pairings are Gianpietro Dotti and Barbara Savoldo (78 shared works, weight 29.9). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 78, around Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, led by Ralph S. Baric, Nathaniel J. Moorman, Mark T. Heise.