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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Number of Awards: 2,251
Total Amount Awarded: $772,139,027

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2015	Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Northeastern University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0011	$45,863	Closed
2015	Enhancing Mixture Interpretation with Highly Informative STRs	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-DN-BX-K067	$585,415	Closed
2015	Enhancing Molecular Autopsies through High Throughout Function Assays and Family Studies of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Variants in Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2015-DN-BX-K017	$712,168	Closed
2015	Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a replacement screening tool.	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence	Washington State Patrol	WA	2015-DN-BX-K055	$150,000	Closed
2015	Evaluating the Efficiency of the Use of the QiagenÂ® QIAsymphonyÂ® with High Throughput Y-screening as an Alternative to Conventional Serology	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Marshall University Research Corporation	WV	2015-R2-CX-K039	$154,577	Closed
2015	Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego	CA	2014-R2-CX-K411	$637,942	Closed
2015	Evaluation and Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Bullet Cartridge Cases	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation	PA	2015-DN-BX-K059	$494,630	Open
2015	Evaluation of Acute Cell Toxicity of Pyrolytic Products of Synthetic Cannabinoids	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	West Virginia University	WV	2015-R2-CX-0032	$45,683	Closed
2015	Evidential Value of Particle Combination Profiles On Common Items of Physical Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Stoney Forensic, Inc.	VA	2015-DN-BX-K046	$441,595	Closed
2015	Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2015-DN-BX-K019	$250,024	Closed
2015	Forensic Investigation of Bloodstains Using Raman Spectroscopy and Chemometrics: species differentiation, kinetic changes, donor age, and potential false positives	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2015-R2-CX-0021	$49,795	Closed
2015	Fort Lauderdale Police Evidence Processing Efficiency Project	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Fort Lauderdale	FL	2015-CD-BX-0077	$53,435	Closed
2015	Front End Separation of Compromised Blood Mixtures for Single Source DNA Profiling	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2015-DN-BX-K024	$295,236	Closed
2015	Further Development of Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation: Method Advancement and Validation	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2015-R2-CX-0019	$42,520	Closed
2015	FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Miami-Dade Police Department	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2015-DN-BX-0051	$974,669	Closed
2015	FY 2015 LAPD DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Los Angeles	CA	2015-DN-BX-0115	$981,593	Closed
2015	FY15 - Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency	IN	2015-DN-BX-0059	$595,727	Closed
2015	FY15 DNA Capacity and Backlog Reduction Grant for the Illinois State Police, Forensic Sciences Command	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Illinois State Police	IL	2015-DN-BX-0018	$2,250,404	Closed
2015	FY15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Alaska Dept of Public Safety	AK	2015-CD-BX-0064	$63,705	Closed
2015	FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Pinellas County Forensic Lab	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Pinellas County	FL	2015-DN-BX-0088	$289,252	Closed
2015	FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Grant	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Executive Office of the Governor of DE	DE	2015-CD-BX-0067	$63,705	Closed
2015	FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grans Program	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Omaha	NE	2015-CD-BX-0005	$165,981	Closed
2015	FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	St Lucie County	FL	2015-CD-BX-0028	$118,357	Closed
2015	Highly efficient sperm cell separation from sexual assault samples for DNA analysis using novel polymer filter technology	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	InnoGenomics Technologies, LLC	LA	2015-DN-BX-K072	$348,796	Closed
2015	Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-NE-BX-K006	$589,701	Closed