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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,
District: 26

Number of Awards: 57
Total Amount Awarded: $13,736,167

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 Closed
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 Closed
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 Closed
2019 Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
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 Closed
2018 Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions NIJ FY18 Continuations FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-IJ-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
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 Closed
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 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 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