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 Sort descending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-75-CX-0017	$443,931	Closed
2019	Development of a Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-R2-CX-0048	$146,805	Closed
2019	Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2019-DU-BX-0010	$390,748	Closed
2019	Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0025	$808,296	Past Project Period End Date
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	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	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
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
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