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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Number of Awards: 35
Total Amount Awarded: $15,758,668

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation Sort ascending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	Impact of Relic DNA on Forensic Microbiome Applications in Criminal Investigations	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04205-RESS	$229,454	Open
2023	The sexual assault microbiome: Detecting contact when minimal male DNA is present.	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04228-DNAX	$409,612	Open
2022	Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU	$834,503	Open
2020	Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-MU-MU-4042	$393,503	Closed
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2020	Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-75-CX-0012	$530,242	Open
2015	Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego	CA	2014-R2-CX-K411	$637,942	Closed
2018	Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2016-DN-BX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2017	Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2016-DN-BX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2017	Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Chicago	IL	2017-MU-MU-0042	$532,286	Closed
2017	The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2017-IJ-CX-0025	$698,382	Closed
2016	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	Non-solicited Applications	The University of Chicago	IL	2015-DN-BX-K430	$564,735	Closed
2016	Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2016-DN-BX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2016	Habitat Specialization and the Evolution of Dispersal	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2016-DN-BX-0194	$684,273	Closed
2016	Forensic Body Fluid Identification Using Microbiome Signature Attribution	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2016-DN-BX-0151	$443,598	Closed
2016	Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY	GA	2016-DN-BX-0196	$637,735	Closed
2016	Identification of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin as a novel candidate trigger for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY	NY	2016-DN-BX-0176	$546,721	Closed
2015	Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2015-DN-BX-K016	$863,485	Closed
2015	Construction of the Forensic Microbiome Database with Enhanced GeoSourcing	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	J. Craig Venter Institute	MD	2015-R2-CX-K036	$962,800	Closed
2015	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UChicago Argonne, LLC	IL	2015-DN-BX-K030	$564,735	Closed
2015	Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-NE-BX-K006	$589,701	Closed
2018	Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0017	$150,000	Closed
2018	DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-R2-CX-0016	$49,981	Closed
2018	Estimating the Postmortem Interval at Longer Timescales Using Bone	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0018	$150,000	Closed
2017	Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2016-DN-BX-4194	$684,273	Past Project Period End Date