← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
$5,274,196,382
Total funding
7,401
Grants
Funding over time
peak $341.5M · FY2005–26$500M$375M$250M$125M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$2,728,577,314 · 2872
NIH$1,549,416,621 · 3013
DOE$380,191,822 · 217
DOD$302,965,514 · 469
USDA$191,036,792 · 572
NASA$95,603,385 · 222
CDC$13,509,373 · 6
FDA$12,312,033 · 23
AHRQ$1,630,406 · 3
ACF$162,914 · 5
By mechanism
—$3,698,537,741 · 4357
R01$864,550,668 · 488
R35$106,878,796 · 58
R21$80,400,793 · 201
U54$62,024,992 · 45
P41$61,921,770 · 1755
Investigators at Cornell University
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Largest grants
NNIN: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network$179,802,144
· FY2004 · ENG
OPERATION OF CORNELL HIGH ENERGY SYNCHROTRON SOURCE (CHESS)$106,002,952
· FY2014 · MPS
Support of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) Facility$99,355,712
· FY2003 · MPS
U.S. CMS Upgrades for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider$79,389,944
· FY2020 · MPS
Operation of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)$74,944,592
· FY2010 · MPS
Operation of the National Astronomy and Inosphere Center, 1999-2004$60,284,932
· FY1999 · MPS
OPERATION OF the NSF Center for High Energy X-ray Science (NSF-CHEXS)$59,000,000
· FY2019 · MPS
AST Cooperative Support Agreement PY 2006$58,130,200
· FY2005 · MPS
Center for Bright Beams$44,608,148
· FY2016 · MPS
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$42,090,892
· FY2021 · EDU
STC: The Nanobiotechnology Center$39,497,888
· FY2000 · ENG
Operation of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (CHESS)$39,487,932
· FY2003 · MPS
TAS::89 0227::TAS RECOVERY; RECOVERY ACT - NANOSTRUCTURED INTERFACES FOR ENERGY GENERATION, CONVERSION, AND STORAGE -- EFRC; PI - HECTOR ABRUNA$34,642,294
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
Graduate Reserach Fellowship Program (GRFP)$34,568,916
· FY2011 · EDU
Mid-scale RI-2: A first-of-its-kind X-ray facility for new science at the high magnetic field frontier$32,694,898
· FY2021 · MPS
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$31,141,144
· FY2016 · EDU
Mid-scale: Operations of the Center for High Energy X-ray Science (CHEXS)$31,000,000
· FY2024 · MPS
IMR: Phase Ib Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) Technology R&D$30,948,000
· FY2010 · MPS
MIP: Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM)$27,816,072
· FY2016 · MPS
STC: Center for Research On Programmable Plant Systems$24,500,000
· FY2021 · BIO