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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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State: FL,
City: Miami

Number of Awards: 111
Total Amount Awarded: $38,868,398

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 City of Miami Police FY 2017 SAFE-ITR Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Miami FL 2017-AK-BX-0013 $264,263 Open
2017 Development of Improved Extraction/Purification Methods for LC-QqQ-MS Analysis of Novel Psychoactive Substances NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2017-IJ-CX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2017 Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid On-site Screening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biological Samples NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0034 $49,996 Open
2017 Hate Crimes in Miami-Dade County: Improving Awareness, Service Delivery, Reporting, Investigation, and Prosecution NIJ FY17 Research on Hate Crimes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-IJ-CX-0031 $499,597 Closed
2017 Implementation of epigenetics into forensic science: Development of a PCR based multiplex for the simultaneous analysis of age and body fluid identification NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-NE-BX-0001 $368,512 Closed
2017 Non-destructive, enhanced collection and recovery from difficult forensic samples, improving the "front end" processes of DNA typing NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-DN-BX-0137 $286,931 Closed
2017 Novel Blood Protein Modification Assay for Retrospective Detection of Drug Exposure - Development and Validation NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-MU-BX-0002 $467,885 Closed
2017 Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2016 DNA methylation analysis using High Resolution Melt for body fluid identification in forensic sciences Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0012 $50,000 Closed
2016 Graduate Research Fellowship: Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid OnsiteScreening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biologicalsamples Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0034 $50,000 Open
2016 Rapid and Accurate On-Site Screening for a Broad Range of Synthetic Cathinones by Electronic Drug Analyzer Based on a Cross-Reactive Aptamer Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2016-DN-BX-0167 $208,971 Closed
2015 Characterization and comparison of tape evidence using elemental profiling methods and chemometric analyses NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-DN-BX-K050 $244,072 Closed
2015 DNA methylation analysis using High Resolution Melt for body fluid identification in forensic sciences NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0012 $49,994 Closed
2015 Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid On-site Screening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biological samples. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0034 $50,000 Open
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Miami-Dade Police Department NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Miami Dade County FL 2015-DN-BX-0051 $974,669 Closed
2015 Novel Blood Protein Modification Assay for Retrospective Detection of Drug Exposure NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-NE-BX-K001 $195,710 Closed
2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant to replace a Scanning Electron Microscope/Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Miami Dade County FL 2015-CD-BX-0020 $175,000 Closed
2015 Strengthening the evaluation and interpretation of glass evidence using statistical analysis of collection sets and databases of refractive index and elemental data (uXRF, ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-DN-BX-K049 $230,471 Closed
2015 The Application of Gold Nanoparticles for the Trace Detection of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Saliva and Urine by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-IJ-CX-K006 $333,582 Closed
2015 Ultrahigh speed Direct PCR. A method for obtaining STR based genotypes in under 6 minutes NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-K038 $400,265 Closed
2014 Drug screening in postmortem blood: a faster approach using GC/MS NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Miami Dade County FL 2014-CD-BX-0028 $174,634 Closed
2014 Enhancing School Safety Through Digital Intelligence: Evaluating Campus Shield NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe The School Board of Miami-Dade, FL FL 2014-CK-BX-0019 $4,273,799 Open
2014 Forensic Toxicological Screening/Confirmation of 500+ Designer Drugs by LC-QTOF-MS and LC-QqQ-MS Analysis NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2014-R2-CX-K006 $396,970 Closed
2014 Miami-Dade Police Department Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Miami-Dade County FL 2014-DN-BX-K074 $125,000 Closed
2013 Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Paper Device for Point of Collection Screening of Cocaine and Methamphetamine in Oral Fluid NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Florida International University FL 2013-DN-BX-K032 $352,223 Closed