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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): novel psychoactive substances

Number of Awards: 18
Total Amount Awarded: $4,390,054

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $492,810 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 FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $485,938 Open
2022 Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 2020-DQ-BX-0007 $200,000 Open
2021 Expert Algorithm for Substance Identification (EASI) Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-21-GG-04179-COAP $327,405 Past Project Period End Date
2021 FY 2021 MDSP - Expanding Targeted Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Capabilities for Controlled Substance Analysis Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE MD 15PNIJ-21-GG-02713-COAP $96,741 Open
2021 Illuminating the Dark: Molecular Networking as a Novel Psychoactive Substance Identification Strategy Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM WI 15PNIJ-21-GG-04171-COAP $271,842 Open
2020 Emerging Drug Threats NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 Drug Enforcement Administration DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0006 $125,000 Open
2020 Evaluating the Robustness and Ruggedness of a Statistical Method for Comparison of Mass Spectral Data for Seized Drug Identification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2020-DQ-BX-0001 $228,918 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 2020-DQ-BX-0007 $555,401 Open
2019 Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2019-DU-BX-0030 $267,438 Past Project Period End Date
2019 The Effects of Synthetic Cathinone Chirality on Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics and Its Implications for Forensic Toxicology Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2019-R2-CX-0046 $149,960 Closed
2018 A More Timely Process for Identifying and Analyzing Trends of Emerging Novel Psychoactive Substances in the United States NIJ FY18 Continuations TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-R2-CX-0002 $49,999 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 Increasing Safety, Speed, Sensitivity, and Selectivity of Controlled Substance Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, MARYLAND MD 2018-DU-BX-0165 $299,234 Closed
2017 A More Timely Process for Identifying and Analyzing Trends of Emerging Novel Psychoactive Substances in the United States NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-R2-CX-0002 $49,994 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 Prevalence of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Oral Fluid NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2017-R2-CX-0019 $311,221 Closed
2015 Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation PA 2015-IJ-CX-K012 $378,153 Closed