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: 80
Total Amount Awarded: $90,368,235

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient Sort descending	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2011	UNTHSC Proposal for the Management and Support of the National Missing and Unidentified Person System	NIJ FY 11 The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2011-MU-BX-K063	$2,600,000	Closed
2012	"Development of an Analytical Approach for a Robust Probability Model for LCN DNA Profile Interpretation"	NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2012-IJ-CX-0016	$24,988	Closed
2014	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program	FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2011-MU-BX-K063	$3,750,000	Closed
2012	Development of Reference Sample DNA Profiling for Databases Using Next Generation Sequencing Technologies	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2012-DN-BX-K033	$747,797	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
2013	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, Fiscal Year 2013	NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2013-DN-BX-K012	$800,000	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
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
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
2015	Development of PCR-Free DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time High Throughput Sequencing	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-DN-BX-K068	$719,633	Closed