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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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Subtopic: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 2,575
Total Amount Awarded: $1,348,165,038

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Optimized, Semi-Automated Differential DNA Extraction (Denver PD Crime Laboratory) NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence City and County of Denver - Denver Police Department CO 2015-NE-BX-K005 $51,699 Closed
2015 Orange County Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent County of Orange CA 2015-DY-BX-K003 $250,000 Closed
2015 Pasco Sheriff's Office Cold Case Initiative: Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Pasco County Sheriffs Office FL 2014-DN-BX-K466 $116,747 Closed
2015 Photo-dissolvable Swabs for Improved Recovery of Forensic Samples NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes General Electric Company NY 2015-DN-BX-K042 $497,708 Closed
2015 Population Genetic Issues for Forensic Y-chromosome Markers NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Washington WA 2015-R2-CX-0020 $48,922 Closed
2015 Postconviction DNA Program NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office IL 2015-DY-BX-K007 $400,701 Closed
2015 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the InnocentUniversity of Kansas School of Law Multi-State Partnership for Innocence NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. KS 2015-DY-BX-K004 $122,994 Closed
2015 Powerful Forensic Markers Optimized for Massively Parallel Sequencing NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Yale University CT 2015-DN-BX-K023 $1,146,143 Closed
2015 Preventing Hydrolytic and Oxidative Damage to Biological Evidence with Antioxidants and Chelators NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 2015-R2-CX-K037 $292,331 Closed
2015 Proteomic and microRNA markers of fly development: Stable correlates of insect age to improve forensic entomology casework NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Texas A&M AgriLife Research TX 2015-DN-BX-K020 $546,742 Open
2015 qPCR Genotype Determination and Mixture Detection Using High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis of STR Loci NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-MU-MU-K026 $321,328 Closed
2015 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes (DVI) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2015-DN-BX-K066 $724,799 Closed
2015 South Dakota FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Office of The Attorney General SD 2015-DN-BX-0060 $150,719 Closed
2015 State of Nebraska - DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program State of Nebraska NE 2015-DN-BX-0102 $276,018 Closed
2015 Statewide NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program New Mexico Department of Public Safety NM 2015-DN-BX-0117 $720,453 Closed
2015 Tennessee's FFY 2015 DBRG Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Tennessee Bureau of Investigations TN 2015-DN-BX-0116 $2,162,375 Closed
2015 The Florida Missing and Unidentified Persons Cold Case Program NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of South Florida FL 2015-DN-BX-K041 $386,537 Closed
2015 The FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program for Anoka County - Tri County Regional Forensic Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Anoka County of MN 2015-DN-BX-0023 $55,500 Closed
2015 The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2015-DN-BX-0033 $966,068 Closed
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 BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 2015-DN-BX-K038 $320,561 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 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: Identifying the Missing of Minnesota NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing MN Dept. of Public Safety - Bureau of Criminal Apprehension MN 2015-DN-BX-K039 $133,434 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