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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.
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Awardee Name: Office of Chief Medical Examiner

Number of Awards: 25
Total Amount Awarded: $15,678,460

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 Evaluating Massive Parallel Sequencing for Missing Persons Identification. Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2016-DN-BX-0172 $474,130 Closed
2015 DNA Capacity and Backlog NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-0118 $1,450,000 Closed
2015 Enhancing Molecular Autopsies through High Throughout Function Assays and Family Studies of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Variants in Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K017 $712,168 Closed
2015 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K040 $277,667 Closed
2015 Validation of Illumina's MiSeq FGx NGS Platform for Transition to Casework NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K005 $150,000 Closed
2014 Advancing Molecular Diagnostics in Sudden Unexplained Deaths NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2014-DN-BX-K001 $540,178 Closed
2014 Identifying Individuals through Proteomic Analysis: A New Forensic Tool to Rapidly and Efficiently Identify Large Numbers of Fragmentary Human Remains NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2014-DN-BX-K014 $588,326 Closed
2013 FY13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2013-DN-BX-0029 $1,300,000 Closed
2013 Improving the capacity, quality and timeliness of the laboratory's DNA services NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2013-CD-BX-0066 $174,816 Closed
2012 FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2012-DN-BX-0095 $1,400,000 Closed
2012 Pre-Extraction Separation of Mixed Source DNA Samples through Micromanipulation and Direct PCR Short Tandem Repeat Typing of Cells NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2012-DN-BX-K043 $179,742 Closed
2012 Use of Novel Chemistry & Microwave Instrumentation to ImproveBody Fluid Assay Sensitivity & Speed while Reducing Costs NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2012-DN-BX-K044 $403,671 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2011-DN-BX-K469 $1,500,000 Closed
2011 Investigating Unexplained Deaths through Molecular Autopsies NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2011-DN-BX-K535 $696,879 Closed
2011 The broad purpose of the Forensic Science Training Program (FSTP) is to contribute to the national effort to elevate standards of practice in the forensic sciences field. NIJ FY 11 Forensic Science Training Delivery and Research Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2011-DN-BX-K570 $796,867 Closed
2010 Development of a Proteomic Assay for Menstrual Blood, Vaginal Fluid and Species Identification NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K192 $418,824 Closed
2010 Estimation of Age at Death using Cortical Bone Histomorphometry NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K035 $114,263 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of New York, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K058 $1,000,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program - New York City, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K181 $62,334 Closed
2010 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K131 $348,511 Closed
2009 City of New York, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Science Training Grant NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2009-DN-BX-K205 $1,000,000 Closed
2009 Molecular Genetic Autopsies in 104 Backlog Sudden Unexplained Death Cases NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2009-CD-BX-0049 $124,172 Closed
2009 Using DNA Technology on Unidentified Individuals from New York City's Potter's Field NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2009-DN-BX-K038 $598,636 Closed
2008 City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Science Training Institute NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2008-DN-BX-K174 $941,196 Closed
2008 Establishment of a Fast and Accurate Proteomic Method for Body Fluid/Cell Type NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2008-DN-BX-K011 $426,080 Closed