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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Number of Awards: 294
Total Amount Awarded: $139,431,505

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0013	$279,983	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
2019	Identification and Analysis of Body Fluid Traces Using ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-R2-CX-0006	$49,997	Closed
2019	Latent Fingerprint Image Enhancement & Matching Using Deep Generative Adversarial Networks	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0041	$99,618	Closed
2019	Nanobiosensor Arrays for On-Site Multiplexed Detection of Protein Markers to Identify Forensically Relevant Body Fluids	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE	CA	2019-NE-BX-0006	$600,544	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Personal Identification and Ancestral Characterization from Genetically Variant Peptides in Human Hair	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2019-R2-CX-0051	$50,000	Closed
2019	Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2019-R2-CX-0035	$150,000	Closed
2018	Analysis and Characterization of Smokeless Powders and Smokeless Powder Residues	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-R2-CX-0008	$150,000	Closed
2018	Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	YALE UNIVERSITY	CT	2018-75-CX-0041	$1,083,499	Closed
2018	Black Box Evaluation of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Conclusions	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2018-DU-BX-0214	$1,086,976	Closed
2018	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
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	Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-DU-BX-0226	$171,041	Closed
2018	Detection and Identification of Psychoactive Material Based On SPME-facilitated DART-MS-derived Headspace Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2018-R2-CX-0012	$100,000	Closed
2018	Development and Application of Small-molecule Spatial Distribution Imaging: Laser Ablation Direct Analysis in Real Time Imaging-Mass Spectrometry (LADI-MS)	NIJ FY18 Continuations	The State University of New York, University at Albany	NY	2017-R2-CX-0003	$50,000	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	Evaluation of Terrestrial and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Kansas State University	KS	2018-R2-CX-0031	$91,416	Closed
2018	Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	2018-DU-BX-0206	$487,647	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Identification and Analysis of Body Fluid Traces Using ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy	NIJ FY18 Continuations	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-R2-CX-0006	$49,993	Closed
2018	Multi-spectral Tunable Detection (MultiTuDe) Lens for Rapid In-situ Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC	CA	2018-75-CX-0042	$271,226	Closed
2018	Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint	NIJ FY18 Continuations	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2016-DN-BX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	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	A highly sensitive magnetic nanoparticle based method for reliable and efficient screening of forensic evidence samples	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	INNOGENOMICS TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.	LA	2017-NE-BX-0007	$350,656	Closed