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: 61
Total Amount Awarded: $81,441,106

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation Sort descending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2007	Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas System Center for Human Identification, Fiscal Year 2007	NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2007-DN-BX-K088	$640,013	Closed
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
2005	Universtity of North Texas Health Science Center, DNA Identity Laboratory Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program, Fiscal Year 2005	Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2005-DN-BX-K127	$561,747	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
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	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,288,461	Past Project Period End Date
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	Past Project Period End Date
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
2022	DNA Typing Strategies for Identification of Human Remains via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04414-MUMU	$650,390	Open
2023	Democratizing investigative genetic genealogy	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-04213-DNAX	$759,008	Open
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