Translating Research into Next Generation Care Through Collaboration


Based in New York City, Weill Cornell Medicine Enterprise Innovation engages and collaborates with Weill Cornell Medicine faculty and trainees while fostering alliances with leaders in the biomedical industry and business and investment community. Our focus is to translate the application of emerging science and new technologies into world-class medical breakthroughs.

Integrating Weill Cornell Medicine’s different teams and resources under a single, united organization, Enterprise Innovation encompasses the entire spectrum of an effective innovation ecosystem. We offer unique opportunities for faculty and trainees to transform their research into medical advances through collaborations.

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Enterprise Innovation Metrics from FY21 to FY25

761
New Tech Disclosures
184
Issued US Patents
131
Licenses and Options
18
NewCo Launches

  

  

Technology Portfolio

Enterprise Innovation brings together the power of industry-leading translational research and clinical care combined with top-tier business development expertise to accelerate innovation to market. Our leading technology portfolio encompasses major pillars of biomedical innovation.

We also provide access to a diverse selection of tangible materials developed by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. See the most updated catalog of our ready-for-licensing tangible materials PDF icon here.

  

Testimonials

Lisa Placanica, Ph.D.
Lisa Placanica, Ph.D., Senior Managing Director of the Center for Technology Licensing
There’s obviously fantastic research being done at Weill Cornell Medicine. So we want to work with faculty to identify aspects of their research that could be shaped into a product or a service, work with them to develop it and then to forge the partnership with a commercial entity. We also have to have a finger on the pulse of what industry is looking for: what venture firms are investing in, what pharma is trying to fill their pipeline with. And then we make connections between the two. We have to speak the language between the commercial enterprise and the academic researcher.
Randi Silver, Ph.D.
Randi B. Silver, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Enterprise Innovation has galvanized us to move forward as basic scientists, and to look for translational aspects that could be developed, with an industrial partner, for patient care. As a result, we have been able to get traction in exploring various avenues for commercialization with angel investors, pharma, venture capital and, significantly, our own Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, none of which would have been possible without support from the Daedalus Fund for Innovation.
Dr. Ronald Crystal
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D., Chair of Genetic Medicine and Professor of Medicine
Allying with the right industrial partner is a vital factor in attracting investors, and Enterprise Innovation’s relationships with and access to biopharma and life science leaders make it possible for aspiring scientist/entrepreneurs to find the right match.
Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, Ph.D.
Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology
With the outstanding support provided by Weill Cornell Medicine’s innovation ecosystem, we identified and developed novel small-molecule inhibitors capable of disabling a detrimental pathway in cancer hosts. We are currently partnering with investors to use our inhibitors as a new strategy for enhancing the effectiveness of chemotherapy and immunotherapy in ovarian cancer and other lethal malignancies.

Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Life-Threatening Inherited Heart Disease

June 17, 2026

A new gene therapy appears to be safe in patients diagnosed with Friedreich ataxia cardiomyopathy, a progressive and fatal inherited cardiac disease, according to a phase 1 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The treatment may also reduce heart damage, although further investigation is needed. 

Researchers-turned-inventors Recognized at Bearers of Innovation Celebration 

June 16, 2026

On May 20, Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) brought together inventors from across colleges and campuses in Ithaca and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City for Bearers of Innovation: A One Cornell Celebration. The event recognized 82 lead inventors who submitted their first invention disclosure to CTL in fiscal year 2024 or fiscal year 2025, and 306 inventors whose technologies were licensed or optioned during that same period.