Academic Integration fosters collaborative, multidisciplinary research across Cornell's campuses in Ithaca and New York City. Investigators from a range of fields – from life sciences to information sciences to social sciences – partner across disciplines to advance discoveries and elevate their world-class research for maximum visibility and impact. These collaborations are vital to Cornell's success at attracting top-tier faculty and graduate students and establishing and enhancing integrated research programs and academic units needed to fuel groundbreaking discoveries with real-world impact.
Uncovering how tuberculosis transmits, $15.5 million, five-year grant from National Institutes of Health
The nuts and bolts of copying DNA, $12 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Science
Retroviruses, HIV, Epstein Barr Virus and B cell lymphoma, $6 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute
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Lymphoma cell metabolism may provide new cancer target
Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from Cornell researchers.
A seminal study: Dr. Paula Cohen and colleagues embark on multi-institutional NIH grant to analyze sperm development
Male infertility is on the rise, with significant declines in sperm quantity and quality occurring across the human population worldwide in the past two decades. The reason for this is poorly understood, and scientists…
Multidisciplinary partnership aims to cure people with HIV
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $26.5 million grant to a group that includes Weill Cornell Medicine, which aims to both silence and permanently remove HIV from the body.
Academic Integration efforts lead to $33M in grants
Seed grants and symposia have bridged researchers from the Ithaca and New York campuses and have brought a high return on investment to Cornell.