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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.
Showing Results For:
State: TX,
City: FORT WORTH

Number of Awards: 80
Total Amount Awarded: $90,368,235

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2021 Enhanced mixture interpretation with long-read DNA sequencing Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-04159-RESS $484,798 Closed
2020 Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2020-DQ-BX-0005 $444,723 Past Project Period End Date
2004 Standardized Sample Collection Kit for Unidentified Remains and Relatives of
Missing Persons 		National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Science and Technology University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2004-DN-BX-K213 $415,493 Closed
2010 City of Fort Worth's FY10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA program NIJ FY 10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K012 $384,960 Closed
2021 Research and Evaluation of the Implementation and Use of Continuous Probabilistic Genotyping Software to Improve the Interpretation of Forensic DNA Mixtures Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-02710-SLFO $377,311 Open
2004 University of North Texas Health Science Center, DNA Identity Laboratory
Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program, Fiscal Year 2004 		Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement FY 2004 University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2004-DN-BX-K219 $371,994 Closed
2014 Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-MU-CX-0102 $369,039 Closed
2010 Addressing Quality and Quantity; the Role of DNA Repair and Whole Genome Amplification in Forensically Relevant Samples NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K227 $363,613 Closed
2008 Cold Case Detective & DNA Processing Grant for the City of Fort Worth NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Fort Worth TX 2008-DN-BX-K130 $345,956 Closed
2013 Development of improved insertion-deletion assays for human and ancestral identifications from degraded samples NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2013-DN-BX-K036 $329,233 Closed
2005 Developing Improved Capacity for the Texas Missing Persons Cases & Fort Worth aea casework in Sexual Assault & Homicide Cases by UNT Health Science Center DNA Identity Lab DNA Capacity Enhancement Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2005-DA-BX-K095 $283,868 Closed
2009 Development of an Expert System for Automated Forensic mtDNA Data Analysis NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K171 $265,393 Closed
2004 Field test of current technology used in the identification of unidentified remains. National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Research and Evaluation University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2004-DN-BX-K214 $249,902 Closed
2004 Developing Improved Capacity for the Texas Missing Persons Cases and Fort Worth ' area casework in Sexual Assault and Homicide Cases by the University of North Texas Health Science Center's DNA Identi DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2004-DN-BX-K197 $205,575 Closed
2020 Interpretation of Y chromosome STRs for missing persons cases Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2020-DQ-BX-0018 $198,362 Closed
2013 FY2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Program-City of Fort Worth NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Fort Worth TX 2013-DN-BX-0058 $169,979 Closed
2006 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Scienc Center, Fiscal Year 2006 NIJ FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Grant Announcement University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2006-DN-BX-K056 $155,314 Closed
2010 City of Fort Worth's FY10 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Worth TX 2010-CD-BX-0087 $129,590 Closed
2009 City of Fort Worth's Forensic Crime Lab Enhancement Program under the 2009 Coverdell Grant NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program City of Fort Worth TX 2009-CD-BX-0080 $124,929 Closed
2011 City of Fort Worth's FY11 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Worth TX 2011-CD-BX-0100 $121,342 Closed
2013 FY 2013 City of Fort Worth Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Worth TX 2013-CD-BX-0070 $113,243 Closed
2005 Forensic Science Improvement Program Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement City of Fort Worth TX 2005-DN-BX-0088 $95,000 Closed
2006 Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY06 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Solicitation City of Fort Worth TX 2006-DN-BX-0026 $95,000 Closed
2008 City of Fort Worth Crime Laboratory Enhancement and Training Project. NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program City of Fort Worth TX 2008-CD-BX-0071 $94,184 Closed
2015 FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Fort Worth NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Fort Worth TX 2015-DN-BX-0038 $87,759 Closed