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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 Validation of Illumina's MiSeq FGx NGS Platform for Transition to Casework NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K005 $150,000 Closed
2015 West Virginia's FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Grant NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program West Virginia Division of Administrative Services, Justice and Community Services WV 2015-CD-BX-0051 $63,705 Closed
2015 WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University MI 2015-DY-BX-K008 $418,099 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 2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2014-DN-BX-K078 $81,446 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 Advanced statistical population genetics methods for forensic DNA identification. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2014-DN-BX-K015 $589,868 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 Anne Arundel County - Solving Cold Cases with DNA Review and Analysis NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Anne Arundel County, Maryland MD 2014-DN-BX-K071 $143,539 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 Arizona DNA Advocacy Project NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2014-DY-BX-K001 $934,003 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 Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University MA 2014-DN-BX-K021 $403,397 Closed
2014 California DNA Assistance Program (CADNAP) NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent California Governor''s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) CA 2014-DY-BX-K002 $1,310,522 Closed
2014 City of Omaha, Nebraska - Omaha Police DepartmentFY2014 NIJ Solving Cold Cases With DNAOmaha Cold Case Squad Intensive Case Review and DNA Analysis Program NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Ciy of Omaha, Nebraska NE 2014-DN-BX-K085 $269,846 Closed
2014 City of Phoenix Police Department''s Solving Cold Cases with DNA 2014 grant program. NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Phoenix Police Department AZ 2014-DN-BX-K070 $269,987 Closed
2014 Clearwater Cold Case Team Project 2014 NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Clearwater FL 2014-DN-BX-K086 $30,671 Closed
2014 Cobb County Cold Case Unit NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Cobb County Board of Commissioners GA 2014-DN-BX-K081 $246,814 Closed
2014 Cold Case Squad and DNA Analysis Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Montgomery County Ohio OH 2014-DN-BX-K067 $167,323 Closed
2014 Computational methods for the interpretation of forensic DNA samples NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Camden Campus NJ 2014-DN-BX-0001 $34,999 Closed
2014 Continued Development of FROG-kb: A Forensic Resource/Reference on Genetics knowledge base NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Yale University CT 2014-DN-BX-K030 $314,468 Closed
2014 CT Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection -- Division of Scientific Services and the CT Division of Criminal Justice 2014 DNA Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA CT Division of Criminal Justice CT 2014-DN-BX-K080 $269,973 Closed
2014 DNA Test Results Quality Improvement Program NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office OH 2014-CD-BX-0003 $175,000 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 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2014-R2-CX-K011 $637,942 Closed