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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Keyword(s): mass spectrometry

Number of Awards: 137
Total Amount Awarded: $40,093,206

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2019 Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2019-R2-CX-0035 $150,000 Closed
2015 Viable, Affordable, and Meaningful Integration of Organic and Inorganic Analysis of Firearms Discharge Residue NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2015-DN-BX-K048 $212,875 Closed
2010 Validation of Forensic Characterization and Chemical Identification of Dyes Extracted from Millimeter-length Fibers NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications University of South Carolina Research Foundation SC 2010-DN-BX-K245 $451,336 Closed
2019 Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY WV 2019-R2-CX-0044 $100,000 Closed
2020 Validation of a LC-DAD-ESI/MS/MS method for the accurate measurement of THC and THCA-A among twenty cannabinoids in various products of Cannabis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY IL 2020-DQ-BX-0021 $160,181 Closed
2021 Validation of a Confirmatory Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Body Fluid Assay for Use in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021 NEW YORK CITY OFF OF CHEIF MED EXAM NY 15PNIJ-21-GG-02712-SLFO $105,592 Open
2012 Use of Novel Chemistry & Microwave Instrumentation to ImproveBody Fluid Assay Sensitivity & Speed while Reducing Costs NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2012-DN-BX-K044 $403,671 Closed
2003 Use of LC/MS/MS to Rapidly Perform First-Pass Screening for Drugs and Poisons in Postmortem Toxicology Cases General Forensic Research and Development for FY 2003 Georgia Bureau of Investigation GA 2003-IJ-CX-K007 $407,451 Closed
2017 Toxicological Time Travel: Retrospective Datamining of Analytical Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Data for Evaluating the Rise and Fall of Novel Opioid and Fentanyl Analog Use in the United States NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017 Fredric Rieders Family Foundation: CFSRE PA 2017-DN-BX-0169 $499,005 Closed
2017 The Use of Gas Chromatography with Tandem Ultra Violet and Mass Spectrometric Detection for the Analysis of Emerging Drugs. Application to Synthetic Cathinones and Fentanyl Analogs. NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The George Washington University DC 2017-R2-CX-0028 $275,221 Closed
2012 The Evaluation of Laser Diode Thermal Desorption ((LDTD) for High Throughput Analysis of Controlled Substances and Toxicology in Forensic Sciences NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Triangle Institute NC 2012-R2-CX-K004 $331,494 Closed
2012 The Analysis of Trace Forensic Evidence Using Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry: Differentiating Fibers NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes St. Olaf College MN 2012-DN-BX-K020 $113,858 Closed
2023 Study of Factors Influencing Mass Spectral Data Comparison NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF KY 15PNIJ-23-GG-01428-RESS $69,835 Open
2018 Structural Characterization of Emerging Synthetic Drugs NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-75-CX-0033 $368,415 Closed
2015 Statistical and Mass Spectral Tools for the Identification and Characterization of Synthetic Phenethylamines NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-IJ-CX-K008 $239,652 Closed
2013 Statistical Analysis and Forensics Determination of Designer Drugs via Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany NY 2013-DN-BX-K041 $284,562 Closed
2022 Species Identification in Forensic Casework using Proteomics NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 15PNIJ-22-GG-03566-SLFO $498,963 Open
2013 Species and age determination of blow fly pupae based upon headspace analysis NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2013-DN-BX-K019 $197,491 Closed
2017 Retrospective Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Forensic Toxicology Casework using Archived High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Fredric Rieders Family Foundation: CFSRE PA 2017-R2-CX-0021 $494,695 Closed
2019 Research to Develop Validated Methods for THC Quantification in Complex Matrices by High-resolution DART-MS—Focus on Edibles and Plant Materials Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2019-DU-BX-0026 $465,724 Closed
2023 Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS $291,801 Open
2020 Research and Development of a Rapid Approach for Identification of Calliphoridae Species Entomological Forensic Evidence Based on DART-HRMS-derived Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2020-MU-MU-0016 $731,306 Open
2023 Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003) NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS $99,818 Open
2020 Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 2020-DQ-BX-0007 $555,401 Open
2022 Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 2020-DQ-BX-0007 $200,000 Open