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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 Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 Identification of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin as a novel candidate trigger for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY NY 2016-DN-BX-0176 $546,721 Closed
2016 Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY GA 2016-DN-BX-0196 $637,735 Closed
2015 A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UChicago Argonne, LLC IL 2015-DN-BX-K030 $564,735 Closed
2015 Construction of the Forensic Microbiome Database with Enhanced GeoSourcing NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes J. Craig Venter Institute MD 2015-R2-CX-K036 $962,800 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego CA 2014-R2-CX-K411 $637,942 Closed
2015 Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-NE-BX-K006 $589,701 Closed
2015 Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2015-DN-BX-K016 $863,485 Closed
2014 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2014-R2-CX-K011 $637,942 Closed
2014 Postmortem Interval Determination: A Metabolomics / Lipidomics Approach NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Lincoln Memorial University TN 2014-DN-BX-K010 $193,079 Closed
2014 Utilization of microbial structure and function in investigations of criminal justice NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Mississippi State University MS 2014-DN-BX-K008 $843,376 Closed
2013 Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2013-R2-CX-K010 $122,902 Closed
2012 Human decomposition: A mosaic model for community succession and implications for future forensic research NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2012-DN-BX-K023 $304,961 Closed