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The 2024-2026 picture for Washington University in St. Louis Department of Radiation Oncology is a 18-PI network with 16 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (48% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), Radiation as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels), and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques as the leading topic (13% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Arash Darafsheh (13.6 weighted works; Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry); Justin M. Barnes (10.2 weighted works; COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening). The clearest collaboration lines are Arash Darafsheh and Tiezhi Zhang (7 shared works, weight 3.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 9.5, around Radiation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, led by Arash Darafsheh, Justin M. Barnes, Hyun Kim.