Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for Washington University in St. Louis Department of Biomedical Engineering is a 101-PI network with 146 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (38% of slots across 69 PIs; 69 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (10% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies as the leading topic (4% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 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 Hong Chen (20.9 weighted works; Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications, Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena); Rohit V. Pappu (20.6 weighted works; Protein Structure and Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing). The clearest collaboration lines are Hong Chen and Dezhuang Ye (19 shared works, weight 12.7). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 14.6, around Physiology, Surgery, Rheumatology, led by Farshid Guilak, Spencer P. Lake, Lori A. Setton.