Report summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Microbiology and Immunology in 2021-2023 reads as a 46-PI network with 56 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Medicine as the leading field (39% of slots across 37 PIs; 37 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), and HIV Research and Treatment as the leading topic (4% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 21 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Ralph S. Baric (25.8 weighted works; SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology); Kristy M. Ainslie (23.2 weighted works; Influenza Virus Research Studies, Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery). The most visible ties are Brian P. Conlon and Sarah E. Rowe (12 shared works, weight 6.2); Blossom Damania and Dirk P. Dittmer (10 shared works, weight 5.5). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 22, around Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Virology, led by Ralph S. Baric, Luther A. Bartelt, David M. Margolis.