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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.

Fiscal year 2021 Awards

NIJ grantees will be notified through the JustGrants system when they have received an award. All grants not awarded by September 30th will be made as soon as possible on a rolling basis and no later than December 31, 2021. Applicants not receiving a FY 2021 award, for which they competitively applied, will be notified as soon as possible, but no later than the calendar year-end. Please continue to visit the NIJ website for updates on NIJ grant awards. NIJ will update the list below as they are released.

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State: FL,
City: Miami

Number of Awards: 102
Total Amount Awarded: $34,603,477

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 Awarded, but not yet accepted
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 Open
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 Open
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 OF FL 2019-DU-BX-0002 $372,438 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 Open
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 Open
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 Open
2019 Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Open
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 Open
2018 Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physiochemical Interactions. NIJ FY18 Continuations The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Open
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 Open
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 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 Open
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 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Open
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