National Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 13

State Ranking by Research Expenditures

# 1

Cornell Total Research Funding

$1.19 Billion

Top Sources of Federal Funding

National and State Rankings: National Science Foundation, FY 2019
All Other Stats: Cornell University Sponsored Financial Services, FY 2020 (Research Expenditures)

TOP 10 RESEARCH DISCIPLINES

EXTERNAL SPONSORED

Health Sciences $273.5 M

Biological & Biomedical Sciences $209.4 M

Agricultural Sciences $62.2 M

Physics $40.0 M

Other Physical Sciences $29.6 M

Computer & Informational Sciences $22.5 M

Chemistry $21.9 M

Electrical/Electronic & Communications Engineering $15.5 M

Mechanical Engineering $14.4 M

Other Non-Science & Engineering Fields $14.1 M

Cornell University Sponsored Financial Services, FY 2020 (research expenditures)
Disciplines are defined by the National Science Foundation

Ranking Cornell Research

#13

Nationally

By Research Expenditures

Nationally # 13

By Research Expenditures

1 Johns Hopkins University

$2.917 B*

2 University of Michigan

$1.676 B

3 University of California, San Francisco

$1.595 B

4 University of Pennsylvania

$1.506 B

5 University of Washington, Seattle

$1.426 B

6 University of California, San Diego

$1.354 B

7 University of California, Los Angeles

$1.306 B

8 University of Wisconsin, Madison

$1.297 B

9 Harvard University

$1.240 B

10 Duke University

$1.227 B

11 Stanford University

$1.204 B

12 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

$1.154 B

13 Cornell University

$1.145 B

14 University of Maryland**

$1.097 B

15 University of Pittsburgh

$1.081 B

16 Yale University

$1.072 B

17 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

$1.013 B

18 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

$1.009 B

19 Columbia University

$1.004 B

20 University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

$969,496 M

*Johns Hopkins’ APL—$1.725 billion
**Includes expenditures from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, College Park campuses.
National Science Foundation, FY 2019

In New York State

By Research Expenditures

In New York State #1

By Research Expenditures

1 Cornell University

$1.145 B

2 Columbia University

$1.004 B

3 New York University

$934,720 M

4 Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

$722,241 M

5 SUNY– University of Buffalo

$413,817 M

Cornell Innovations

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13

New Startup Companies

69

Commercial Licenses and Options

408

Patents Issued

518

New Technologies Disclosed

$20.5 M

Revenue

Cornell Innovations

New Startup Companies

Eight in New York State

Ava Labs, Inc. - Ithaca, New York
Dynamic Locomotion, Inc. - Groton, New York
Inso Biosciences, Inc. - Ithaca, New York
LEXEO Therapeutics, LLC. - New York, New York
OneThree Biotech, Inc. - Astoria, New York
OWiC Technologies, Inc. - Ithaca, New York
Uni Creative, Inc. - Brooklyn, New York
Volastra Therapeutics, Inc. - New York, New York

Five Worldwide

C2i Genomics, Inc. - Cresskill, New Jersey
Faeth Therapeutics, Inc. - Oakland, California
NFHS, Inc. - Delray Beach, Florida
Ship of Theseus, LLC - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Swiftscale Biologics, Inc. - San Francisco, California

Commercial Licenses and Options

51 Inventions
16 Plants
2 Copyrights

Patents Issued

408

Patents Issued

124 in the United States
284 internationally

675 Patents Filed

353 in the United States
322 internationally

New Technologies Disclosed

518

Revenue

$20.5 M

$15.3 M from Licensing
$5.2 M from Patent Expense Reimbursement

Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University, FY 2020

3

New 2020 Memberships in the National Academies

4

Presidential Early CAREER Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

7

National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards

3

National Institutes of Health New Innovator Awards

3

U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Awards

1

U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

3

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships

1

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Cornell Distinctions

3

Faculty were inducted into the distinguished national academies in fiscal year 2020.

Cornell University’s faculty of extreme talent receive top national and international awards and honors. Established faculty are elected to the nation’s prestigious academies, and early career faculty receive Presidential Early CAREER Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)—among many other distinctions and recognitions. These distinctions affirm Cornell's excellence in scholarship and discovery. Research of the Cornell faculty translates into technologies and insight that have an extraordinary impact on the well-being of our global society, achieving Results that Matter.