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Development and Validation of Standard Operating Procedures for Measuring Microbial Populations for Estimating a Postmortem Interval

Award Information

Award #
2010-DN-BX-K243
Funding Category
Competitive
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
Total funding (to date)
$476,348

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2010, $476,348)

The goal of this research project is to develop a SOP for sampling and pyrosequencing microbial communities on human remains to predict the actual time since death. This research could lead to a new method of post mortem interval (PMI) determination, which would assist law enforcement and medicolegal death investigators establish a time of death. ca/ncf
Date Created: August 29, 2010