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	Recipient Sort descending	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
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
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
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
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
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
2018	DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2018-DU-BX-0205	$477,609	Closed
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
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
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