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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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Keyword(s): mass spectrometry

Number of Awards: 146
Total Amount Awarded: $43,119,732

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 A Combined Molecular Analysis of Pollen Utilizing Lipid Profiling & DNA Barcoding for Plant Species Identification: A Forensic Application NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-24-GG-01571-RESS $120,000 Open
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 Open
2024 Differentiation of Hemp and Marijuana Through Ion Complexation with Copper Phosphine Complexes NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03858-RESD $216,763 Open
2024 Expert Algorithm to Identify Seized Drugs from Tandem Mass Spectra NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-24-GG-03856-RESS $399,300 Open
2024 Investigations Toward Development of a Technique for Rapid Identification of Forensically Relevant Necrophagous Beetle Species for Postmortem Interval Determination NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-24-GG-01567-RESS $111,822 Open
2024 Nanoparticle-Decorated Micropillars As Integrated Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Quantitative and High-Throughput Toxicology Drug Analysis NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04235-RESS $347,330 Open
2024 Non-Contact Detection of Fentanyl and Other Opioids: Towards a Generalized Approach to Detection of Dangerous Drug Classes NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Naval Research Laboratory GRANT14119305 $624,483 Open
2024 On the reliability of the forensic examination of electrical tapes and the influence of alteration sources encountered in casework NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03853-RESD $216,195 Open
2024 Research and Development for the Creation of Validated Protocols for the Forensic Detection and Quantification of Psilocybin and Psilocin in Complex Edible Matrices NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-24-GG-03848-MUMU $781,087 Open
2024 Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS $407,064 Open
2024 Semi-empirical Kinetics Model for Fingerprint Aging NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-24-GG-03855-MUMU $399,437 Open
2023 Development of a Stable Matrix-Matched Standard for Molecular and Elemental Analysis of Hair in Forensic Toxicology NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01945-RESS $110,966 Open
2023 Developmental Validation of a Novel Multi-analyte Recovery Method for Trace Biological Samples NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-23-GG-04207-DNAX $494,268 Open
2023 Evaluation of the Luxon Ion Source for Rapid Screening in Forensic Laboratories NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-23-GG-01419-RESS $319,172 Open
2023 Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $492,810 Past Project Period End Date
2023 Nanoparticle-Decorated Micropillars As Integrated Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Quantitative and High-Throughput Toxicology Drug Analysis NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04235-RESS $199,676 Open
2023 New Age Therapeutics: Development and Validation of an Analytical Workflow for the Analysis of Psychedelics in Biological Matrices NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01426-RESS $441,886 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 Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003) NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS $99,818 Open
2023 Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS $291,801 Open
2023 Study of Factors Influencing Mass Spectral Data Comparison NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF KY 15PNIJ-23-GG-01428-RESS $69,835 Open
2022 Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO $395,516 Open
2022 Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $485,938 Past Project Period End Date
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 Past Project Period End Date
2022 Species Identification in Forensic Casework using Proteomics NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 15PNIJ-22-GG-03566-SLFO $498,963 Open