Rutgers' growing research and innovation enterprise strives to solve real-world problems while driving innovation and economic development and addressing societal challenges.

In the Rutgers Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report, Rutgers Senior Vice President for Research, Michael E. Zwick, announced that this was a record year with nearly $930 million of sponsored award funding.

Record-Breaking Research

• $929.3 million in research grants and sponsored programs—a record year
• 4,225 research awards
• $12.7 million in licensing revenue

Rutgers Innovation by the Numbers

• 160 new inventions, like a novel injectable hydrogel technology to treat intervertebral disc degeneration
• 121 total global patents; two Rutgers innovations received Edison Patent Awards in the biotechnology and defense categories
• 93 new license agreements for a range of companies, including a Rutgers startup artificial intelligence company

Selected Rutgers Research Highlights

• Rutgers researchers work to find solutions to the opioid crisis
• Rutgers help forecasters to predict severe storms
• Rutgers is part of an NSF-funded consortium to advance to photonics research
• Rutgers researches AI-equipped vehicles on the world's largest open track experiment
• Rutgers has pioneered a unique approach to reimagining crime prevention, using risk terrain modeling technology to analyze root crime causes and improve public safety outcomes
• A base editing technology for therapeutic cell engineering invented at Rutgers was sublicensed to a global biopharmaceutical company