Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for University of Southern California Department of Biomedical Engineering is a 43-PI network with 15 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (34% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Neural dynamics and brain function as the leading topic (4% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Eun Ji Chung (14.5 weighted works; MicroRNA in disease regulation, Renal and related cancers). The clearest collaboration lines are Qifa Zhou and Mark S. Humayun (14 shared works, weight 7.3); Mark S. Humayun and Gianluca Lazzi (9 shared works, weight 5). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 3 internal connections, weight 12.8, around Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, led by Qifa Zhou, Mark S. Humayun, Gianluca Lazzi.