The Institute for Genomic Diversity was established at Cornell University in 1998 with an anonymous donation. We are now self-supporting through a variety of grants including those from the National Science Foundation, Syngenta Foundation, Generation Challenge Program, the New York Farm Viability Institute, and others. Our mission is to develop, transfer, and provide technologies and educational resources to solve problems affecting the conservation of biodiversity and global food security.
We do this both through research projects and by developing resources, both scientific and education and training related.
