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
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
2013	Research on Facilitators of Transnational Organized Crime: Understanding Crime Networks' Logistical Support	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2013-R2-CX-0046	$165,497	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
2012	2012 Denver Cold Case Project	NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City and County of Denver	CO	2012-DN-BX-K007	$499,818	Closed
2012	Body fluid Identification using epigenetic methylation markers and pyrosequencing	NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2012-DN-BX-K018	$316,850	Closed
2012	Familial DNA Database Search System-Hardware/Software Integration Project	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City and County of Denver	CO	2012-DN-BX-K036	$447,979	Closed
2012	Pre-Extraction Separation of Mixed Source DNA Samples through Micromanipulation and Direct PCR Short Tandem Repeat Typing of Cells	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2012-DN-BX-K043	$179,742	Closed
2012	Proximity Ligation Real time PCR for the Detection of Spermatozoa	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The George Washington University	DC	2012-DN-BX-K034	$263,313	Closed
2012	Use of Novel Chemistry & Microwave Instrumentation to ImproveBody Fluid Assay Sensitivity & Speed while Reducing Costs	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2012-DN-BX-K044	$403,671	Closed
2011	Automated Sperm Detection in forensic DNA analysis: Implications for Rape Kit Analysis	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Arryx, Inc	IL	2011-DN-BX-K562	$360,748	Closed
2011	BCPD FY2011 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Project	NIJ FY 11 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Baltimore, County of	MD	2011-DN-BX-K519	$176,444	Closed
2011	Characterization of Bacterial and Fungal Communities Associated with Corpse Decomposition Using Next Generation Sequencing	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2011-DN-BX-K533	$894,629	Closed
2011	Development of an Immuno-Magnetic Procedure for the Separation of Spermatozoa from Vaginal Epithelial Cells	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College	NY	2011-NE-BX-K547	$196,720	Closed
2011	DNA Forensics Using Single Molecule Technology: From DNA Recovery and Extraction to Genotyping Degraded and Trace Evidence without PCR	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.	KS	2011-DN-BX-K542	$587,597	Closed
2011	Extending the Microbial Forensic Toolkit Through Whole Genome Sequencing and Statistical Phylogenomics	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Baylor College of Medicine	TX	2011-DN-BX-K534	$581,213	Closed
2011	Investigating Unexplained Deaths through Molecular Autopsies	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2011-DN-BX-K535	$696,879	Closed
2011	Rapid and selective extraction of male DNA from rape kits and other forensic evidence using pressure cycling	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2011-NE-BX-K550	$349,130	Closed
2011	Research on Violence and Victimization Across the Life Span, Special Topic: Offender Interventions: Why offenders desist from intimate partner violence	NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization	Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.	MA	2011-WG-BX-0001	$151,580	Closed
2010	Estimating Postmortem Interval: A Molecular Approach	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations	West Virginia University Research Corporation	WV	2010-DN-BX-K180	$462,492	Closed
2010	FY 2010 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program	City of Oakland	CA	2010-DN-BX-K182	$114,600	Closed
2010	FY2010 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence	NIJ FY 10 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence	National Forensic Science Technology Center	FL	2010-DN-BX-K210	$6,199,989	Closed