Report summary

University of Wisconsin–madison Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2021-2023 reads as a 54-PI network with 61 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Medicine as the leading field (44% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications as the leading topic (6% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Susan L. Thibeault (19.1 weighted works; Voice and Speech Disorders, Respiratory and Cough-Related Research); Melissa C. Skala (18.3 weighted works; Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Immune cells in cancer). The most visible ties are David J. Beebe and José M. Ayuso (17 shared works, weight 11.2); Scott B. Reeder and Diego Hernando (20 shared works, weight 11). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 27.3, around Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, led by Melissa C. Skala, David J. Beebe, Padma Gopalan; group 2 with 8 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 34, around Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, led by Scott B. Reeder, Diego Hernando, Kevin M. Johnson.