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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 386
Total Amount Awarded: $181,641,771

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
2015	Use of Genetically Variant Peptides to Statistically Estimate the Genetic Background of Hair Shafts	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2015-DN-BX-K065	$397,337	Closed
2015	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2015-DN-BX-K040	$277,667	Closed
2015	Validation of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Children''s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland	CA	2015-DN-BX-K053	$758,184	Closed
2014	2014 Denver Cold Case Project	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City and County of Denver	CO	2014-DN-BX-K073	$125,000	Closed
2014	A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Syracuse University	NY	2014-DN-BX-K029	$213,372	Closed
2014	Advancing Molecular Diagnostics in Sudden Unexplained Deaths	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2014-DN-BX-K001	$540,178	Closed
2014	Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation for a Statistically Based Comparison of Tool Marks using GelSight-Based 3D Imaging and Novel Comparison Algorithms for Firearm Forensics	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Cadre Research Labs, LLC	IL	2014-DN-BX-K012	$190,400	Closed
2014	Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K037	$187,518	Closed
2014	Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-DN-BX-K026	$813,843	Closed
2014	Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K035	$264,722	Open
2014	FY 2014 NIJ DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program - Rhode Island Department of Health	NIJ FY 14 DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program	Rhode Island Public Safety Grant Administration Office	RI	2014-DN-BX-K126	$190,980	Closed
2014	Identifying Individuals through Proteomic Analysis: A New Forensic Tool to Rapidly and Efficiently Identify Large Numbers of Fragmentary Human Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2014-DN-BX-K014	$588,326	Closed
2014	Improving the prediction of human quantitative pigmentation traits such as eye, hair and skin color using a worldwide representation panel of US and European individuals	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Indiana University	IN	2014-DN-BX-K031	$1,123,404	Closed
2014	Isolation of Sperm DNA Through Protamine Capture	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	General Electric Company, GE Global Research	NY	2014-DN-BX-K017	$527,902	Closed
2014	Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-DN-BX-K002	$462,226	Closed
2014	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic DNA Profiles	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Washington	WA	2014-DN-BX-K028	$510,045	Closed
2014	Post Coital DNA Recovery in Minority Couples	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence	University of Alabama at Birmingham	AL	2014-NE-BX-0009	$939,398	Closed
2014	Serial Sexual Assaults: A Longitudinal Examination of Offending Patterns Using DNA Evidence	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence	Michigan State University	MI	2014-NE-BX-0006	$699,533	Closed
2014	The physical separation and single source DNA profiling of individual mixture components by RNA in situ hybridization-based cell type identification	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2014-DN-BX-K018	$530,426	Closed
2014	Transcriptome Sequencing of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids and Tissues to Obtimize Degradation Analysis for Sample Age Estimation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences	OK	2014-DN-BX-K025	$241,352	Closed
2013	Anthropological Methods for DNA Analysis of the Missing and Unidentified Children Located at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida	NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	University of South Florida	FL	2013-DN-BX-K002	$423,528	Closed
2013	Assessing Sample Preparation Methods for Emerging DNA Sequencing Technologies in Human Forensic mtDNA Analysis Applications	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Western Carolina University	NC	2013-DN-BX-K014	$717,768	Closed
2013	Delivery of a Microfluidic Acoustic Sperm Cell Trapping Prototype for Rapid Processing of Sexual Assault Evidence	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia	VA	2013-NE-BX-K027	$199,744	Closed
2013	DNA Profiling of Complex Biological Mixtures using HLA-Antibody Probes and Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2013-DN-BX-K033	$385,496	Closed