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: 111
Total Amount Awarded: $38,868,398

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	A Comparative Evaluation of the MinION and MiSeq Sequencing Platforms for the Analysis of Human Hand Microbial Profiles for Forensic Investigations.	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-24-GG-03842-SLFO	$487,790	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Advancing New Psychoactive Substance Detection by Performance Comparison of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Techniques	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01569-RESS	$119,881	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2023	Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU	$431,892	Open
2023	Rapid screening and identification of fentanyl in drug mixtures using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04230-RESS	$190,662	Open
2023	The sexual assault microbiome: Detecting contact when minimal male DNA is present.	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04228-DNAX	$409,612	Open
2022	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2022	Improving Strategies for Investigating & Prosecuting Hate Crimes: A National Yet Local Approach	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-01000-RESS	$994,787	Open
2022	Non-contact detection of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids: Towards a generalized approach to the detection of dangerous drug clases	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04418-RESS	$642,632	Open
2021	Comparative Evaluation of Low- and High-Resolution MS Approaches for Screening and Confirmation of New Psychoactive Substances in Human Specimen Matrices	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04173-COAP	$437,665	Open
2021	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2020	Alibi Generation: Improving innocents suspects' accuracy and examining alibi discriminability using a novel GPS paradigm	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-R2-CX-0019	$83,840	Closed
2020	Biomarkers of Cannabis Exposure in Exhaled Breath Condensate and Oral Fluid	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-DQ-BX-0011	$434,273	Open
2020	LC-QqQ-MS screening assay for abused drug exposure based on covalent peptide/protein modification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-R2-CX-0023	$100,000	Closed
2019	Combining LC-MS/MS Product-Ion Scan Technology with GC-MS Analysis to Identify Drugs and Poisons in Postmortem Fluidsand Tissues	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019	MIAMI-DADE COUNTY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0002	$372,438	Closed
2019	Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Sensor for Rapid Identification of Marijuana from Hemp	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-R2-CX-0045	$50,000	Closed
2019	Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Sensor for Rapid Opioid Detection in Seized Substances	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0024	$365,101	Closed
2019	Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0013	$279,983	Closed
2019	Improving Juror Comprehension of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation	Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-75-CX-0010	$497,208	Closed
2019	Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2018	Development of Improved Extraction/Purification Methods for LC-QqQ-MS Analysis of Novel Psychoactive Substances	NIJ FY18 Continuations	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0004	$50,000	Closed
2018	Evaluating Analytical Parameters and Understanding Drug-Matrix Interactions in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-75-CX-0037	$400,349	Closed
2018	Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions	NIJ FY18 Continuations	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2018	Testing a ''not sure'' instruction as a prophylactic against the harmful impact of system and estimator variables on lineup identification accuracy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-R2-CX-0030	$183,059	Closed
2018	Validation of Novel Statistical Approaches for the Interpretation of Trace Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-DU-BX-0194	$499,318	Closed