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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
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
2013 FY 2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2013-DN-BX-0062 $518,302 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2015-DN-BX-0057 $507,165 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-DN-BX-K408 $654,539 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
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
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
2009 Improved Tools and Interpretation Guidelines for Examining Limited Low Copy Number DNA Obtained from Degraded Single Source Samples: Bones, Teeth, and Hairs NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K188 $935,992 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
2007 Missing Persons and Unidentified Decendents Regional Training for Law Enforcement NIJ FY 07 Training and Assistance for Criminal Justice Professionals in the Collection and Use of DNA Evidence UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2007-IJ-CX-K234 $800,000 Closed
2012 NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-DN-BX-K057 $1,925,000 Closed
2015 NIJ FY15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-DN-BX-K070 $2,238,750 Closed
2014 Novel Collection Device for Enhanced DNA Recovery and Release from Biological Stain Samples NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-DN-BX-K033 $487,884 Closed
2023 Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS $513,529 Open
2012 Physical and Biochemical Factors Affecting the Recovery and Analysis of DNA from Human Skeletal Remains NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2012-IJ-CX-0017 $25,000 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 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
2012 Support for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,700,000 Closed
2010 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identifcation Project: Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, FY 2010 NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K206 $2,808,508 Closed
2007 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project: To Perform Anthropological, mtDNA and STR Analysis on Unidentified Human Remains and Family Reference Samples for Entry into CODI National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2007-DN-BX-K200 $1,400,000 Closed
2009 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project: Using DNATechnology to Identify the Missing. Fiscal Year 2009 NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K164 $2,505,389 Closed
2005 To Perform Anthropological, mtDNA and STR Analysis of Unidentified Human Remains and Family Reference Samples for Entry into CODIS NIJ/Office of Science & Technology Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2004-DN-BX-K212 $1,484,782 Closed
2016 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2016-DN-BX-0154 $682,474 Closed
2017 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $46,155 Closed
2018 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY18 Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $43,039 Closed