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The 2021-2023 picture for University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology is a 55-PI network with 114 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (37% of slots across 40 PIs; 40 labels), Immunology as the leading subfield (28% of slots across 37 PIs; 37 labels), and Immune Cell Function and Interaction as the leading topic (11% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 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 Dario A.A. Vignali (13.5 weighted works; Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Immune Cell Function and Interaction); Amr H. Sawalha (12.8 weighted works; Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases). The clearest collaboration lines are Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe and Timothy W. Hand (6 shared works, weight 5.1). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 20.8, around Molecular Biology, Immunology, Oncology, led by Dario A.A. Vignali, Jishnu Das, Timothy W. Hand; group 2 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 16.3, around Immunology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, led by Angus W. Thomson, Fadi G. Lakkis, Mark J. Shlomchik.