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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.

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

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Topic: Forensic sciences,
Subtopic: Forensic sciences

Number of Awards: 4,921
Total Amount Awarded: $2,228,422,575

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Differentiating Monozygotic Twins with DNA Methylation Technology NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications Battelle Memorial Institute OH 2017-DN-BX-4178 $207,427 Closed
2018 DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2018-R2-CX-0016 $49,981 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 DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing for Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2018-DU-BX-0179 $634,973 Past Project Period End Date
2018 ENHANCING FOUNDATIONAL VALIDITY OF FORENSIC FINDINGS IN MEDICO-LEGAL STRANGULATION EXAMINATIONS NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VA 2018-VA-CX-0004 $726,344 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Ensuring standards and enhancing the field of predictive biometrics using a globally-diverse genotype-phenotype database NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-DU-BX-0219 $651,242 Closed
2018 Establishing Sufficiency Thresholds for Assessing the Quality of Mass Spectral Data NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories HOUSTON FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER, INC. TX 2018-DU-BX-0184 $282,703 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 Evaluating Analytical Parameters and Understanding Drug-Matrix Interactions in Forensic Hair Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2018-75-CX-0037 $400,349 Closed
2018 Evaluation of 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy for Firearm Forensics within the Crime Lab NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC IL 2018-DU-BX-0216 $198,000 Closed
2018 Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology for Routine Forensic Casework NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2018-DU-BX-0166 $390,646 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 Extended Development, Verification, and Validation of a Blast Dynamics Simulator for Post-Blast Forensic Investigations NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, THE NC 2017-R2-CX-0009 $46,526 Closed
2018 Fast Screening of Firearm Discharge Residues by Laser-based Spectrochemical Methods, Electrochemical Sensors, and Chemometrics NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-DU-BX-0186 $379,394 Closed
2018 Fentanyl Contamination NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health DJO-NIJ-18-RO-0506 $500,000 Open
2018 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCOE) FY17 NIJ FY18 Continuations RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2016-MU-BX-K110 $3,499,965 Past Project Period End Date
2018 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program, 2015-DN-BX-0065 NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TX 2015-DN-BX-4065 $196,262 Closed
2018 FY 2016 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - 2016-DN-BX-0125 NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TX 2016-DN-BX-4125 $199,919 Closed
2018 Game theory applications in security? NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY NJ 2018-R2-CX-0011 $150,000 Closed
2018 High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening in Forensic Toxicology: Cost Benefit Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-75-CX-0040 $306,688 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 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2018 Identification of Drugs in Powders, Tablets, Liquids, and Plant Material Via Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-75-CX-0035 $96,469 Closed
2018 IDENTIFICATION OF LOW EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR POST-BLAST RESIDUES VIA GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) COUPLED WITH VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (VUV) SPECTROSCOPY NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-R2-CX-0015 $150,000 Closed