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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: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 2,584
Total Amount Awarded: $1,352,126,447

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2014 Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2014-DN-BX-K035 $264,722 Open
2014 Fort Myers Cold Case Review Team NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Fort Myers FL 2014-DN-BX-K068 $266,314 Closed
2014 FY 2014 Indianapolis Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Indianapolis IN 2014-DN-BX-K084 $255,869 Closed
2014 FY 2014 NIJ DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program NIJ FY 14 DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program Mississippi Department of Public Safety MS 2014-DN-BX-0127 $425,000 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 FY2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA - Attorney General, Alabama NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Attorney General, Alabama AL 2014-DN-BX-K063 $125,000 Closed
2014 How it got there: associating individual DNA profiles with specific body fluids in mixtures using targeted digital gene expression and RNA-SNP identification NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2014-DN-BX-K019 $436,457 Closed
2014 Identifying Individuals through Proteomic Analysis: A New Forensic Tool to Rapidly and Efficiently Identify Large Numbers of Fragmentary Human Remains 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-K014 $588,326 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 Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2014-DN-BX-K002 $462,226 Closed
2014 Kent Metro Cold Case DNA Initiative - Kent County, Michigan NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Kent MI 2014-DN-BX-K064 $188,402 Closed
2014 Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2014-DY-BX-K003 $391,345 Closed
2014 Measuring Rates of mtDNA Heteroplasmy and Assessing Transmission of Variants NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK PA 2014-DN-BX-K022 $438,790 Closed
2014 Methods for obtaining STR???quality touch DNA from archived fingerprints NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-DN-BX-K013 $255,047 Closed
2014 Miami-Dade Police Department Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Miami-Dade County FL 2014-DN-BX-K074 $125,000 Closed