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Center for Technology Licensing (CTL)

Cornell University / Weill Cornell Medicine

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
The Center for Technology Licensing is the commercialization arm of Cornell University, with a dedicated office serving Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. CTL manages patent filing, technology licensing and startup support for Cornell and Weill Cornell inventors.
Organizational model
Academic · Nonprofit
Location
Ithaca, New York
Program types
Technology transferEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
License
Focus areas
Clinical
Public scale or maturity signals

Documented successes: 75 startups created and 497 licenses and options executed between 2021 and 2025; $2.4 billion raised by those startups and $122 million in revenue over the same period; more than 230 startups based on Cornell technologies all-time with $3.2 billion cumulative funding raised

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

The Center for Technology Licensing is the commercialization arm of Cornell University, with a dedicated office serving Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. CTL manages patent filing, technology licensing and startup support for Cornell and Weill Cornell inventors. It negotiates license and option agreements with industry and works with faculty founders to spin out companies based on university technology. The office covers both the Ithaca campus and the biomedical research enterprise at Weill Cornell.

Areas of Focus

Clinical

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    75 startups created and 497 licenses and options executed between 2021 and 2025; $2.4 billion raised by those startups and $122 million in revenue over the same period; more than 230 startups based on Cornell technologies all-time with $3.2 billion cumulative funding raised

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Center for Technology Licensing (CTL), Cornell University / Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Alice LiExecutive Director, CTL

Contact the Program

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Program phone
607-254-4698
Official contact page
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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) official source ctl.cornell.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) source 2 ctl.cornell.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  3. Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) source 3 ctl.cornell.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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