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

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Subtopic: Forensic biology

Number of Awards: 364
Total Amount Awarded: $172,946,022

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A Multidisciplinary Validation Study of Non-human Animal Models for Forensic Decomposition Research NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2013-DN-BX-K037 $226,382 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
2013 Enhancing the Capacity, Capabilities, and Validity of U.S. Forensic Laboratories NIJ Non-solicited Applications, Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Forensic Science Center 2013-DNR-5042 $344,000 Closed
2013 High resolution SNP panels for forensic identification of ancestry, family, and phenotype. NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Yale University CT 2013-DN-BX-K023 $952,255 Closed
2013 NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits NIJ Non-solicited Applications, Fiscal Year 2013 Federal Bureau of Investigation 2013-MUR-6019 $1,000,000 Closed
2013 NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits NIJ Non-solicited Applications, Fiscal Year 2013 Federal Bureau of Investigation 2013-MUR-6019 $4,874,000 Closed
2013 Physical Evidence, Forensic Evidence and the Prosecution of Sexual Assault NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2013-NE-BX-0005 $134,980 Closed
2012 "Development of an Analytical Approach for a Robust Probability Model for LCN DNA Profile Interpretation" NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-IJ-CX-0016 $24,988 Closed