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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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Keyword(s): microbiome

Number of Awards: 37
Total Amount Awarded: $16,728,074

Funded Awards
FY 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 Effects of insects and soils on the assembly of universal microbial decomposers and prediction of postmortem interval NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 15PNIJ-24-GG-03839-RESD $481,616 Open
2023 Impact of Relic DNA on Forensic Microbiome Applications in Criminal Investigations NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04205-RESS $229,454 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 Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU $834,503 Open
2020 Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2020-R2-CX-0046 $81,058 Closed
2020 Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO CA 2017-MU-MU-4042 $393,503 Closed
2020 Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2020-75-CX-0012 $530,242 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-75-CX-0017 $443,931 Closed
2019 Development of a Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-R2-CX-0048 $146,805 Closed
2019 Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2019-DU-BX-0010 $390,748 Closed
2019 Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2019-DU-BX-0025 $808,296 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2018 DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2018-R2-CX-0016 $49,981 Closed
2018 DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA OK 2018-DU-BX-0205 $477,609 Closed
2018 Estimating the Postmortem Interval at Longer Timescales Using Bone NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2018-R2-CX-0018 $150,000 Closed
2018 Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2018-R2-CX-0017 $150,000 Closed
2017 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2016-DN-BX-4194 $684,273 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Chicago IL 2017-MU-MU-0042 $532,286 Closed
2017 The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2017-IJ-CX-0025 $698,382 Closed
2016 A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics Non-solicited Applications The University of Chicago IL 2015-DN-BX-K430 $564,735 Closed
2016 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2016 Forensic Body Fluid Identification Using Microbiome Signature Attribution Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-DN-BX-0151 $443,598 Closed
2016 Habitat Specialization and the Evolution of Dispersal Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2016-DN-BX-0194 $684,273 Closed