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
Cornell Innovations
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
16 Plants
2 Copyrights
Patents Issued
124 in the United States
284 internationally
675 Patents Filed
353 in the United States
322 internationally
$5.2 M from Patent Expense Reimbursement
Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University, FY 2020
Cornell Distinctions
3
Faculty were inducted into the distinguished national academies in fiscal year 2020.
Victor Nee
Kay WalkingStick
Éva Tardos
More Distinctions
Silvia Formenti
Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Damek Davis
Operations Research and Information Engineering, College of Engineering
Christina Delimitrou
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Robert A. DiStasio Jr.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Paul Ginsparg
Information Science, Computing and Information Science
Kate Manne
Sage School of Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Jeremy Baskin
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences/Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
Martha P. Haynes
Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences
Éric Rebillard
Classics, College of Arts and Sciences
Pater J. Katzenstein
Government, College of Arts and Sciences
Chun-Jun Guo
Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Simon Scheuring
Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Marcos Simoes-Costa
Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Nozomi Ando
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Robert A. DiStasio Jr.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Kathryn Mann
Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences
Gregory McLaskey
Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Adrian Sampson
Computer Science, Computing and Information Science/College of Engineering
Andrej Singer
Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Malte Ziewitz
Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Hale Ann Tufan
Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Madeleine Udell
Operations Research and Information Engineering, College of Engineering
J.C. Séamus Davis
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Kirstin Petersen
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Thomas Hartman
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Jenny T. Kao-Kniffin
School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Kin Fai Mak
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Rebecca Slayton
Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Carl F. Nathan
Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Greeshma Gadikota
Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Jared Maxson
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Brad Ramshaw
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences