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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Number of Awards: 2,604
Total Amount Awarded: $1,357,858,142

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2021	Research and Evaluation of the Implementation and Use of Continuous Probabilistic Genotyping Software to Improve the Interpretation of Forensic DNA Mixtures	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-21-GG-02710-SLFO	$377,311	Past Project Period End Date
2021	Transfer, Persistence and DNA Source Attribution of Trace Biological Material in Digital Penetration Assault Cases	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04147-RESS	$550,440	Past Project Period End Date
2021	Validation of a Confirmatory Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Body Fluid Assay for Use in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021	NEW YORK CITY OFF OF CHEIF MED EXAM	NY	15PNIJ-21-GG-02712-SLFO	$105,592	Past Project Period End Date
2020	A Rapid, Microfluidic Transcriptomic Method for Body Fluid Identification from Forensic Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0027	$436,934	Past Project Period End Date
2020	An Affinity-Free, Centrifugal Microfluidic System for Rapid, Automated Differential Extraction	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0024	$466,886	Past Project Period End Date
2020	An Assessment of Probabilistic Approaches to mtDNA Mixture Interpretation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0004	$205,963	Closed
2020	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,288,461	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Closed
2020	Develop non-PCR-based target enrichment reagents and methods for MPS analysis of forensic DNA	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-R2-CX-0029	$100,000	Closed
2020	Developmental evaluation of a combinatorial qPCR multiplex for forensic body fluid identification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-R2-CX-0031	$49,994	Closed
2020	Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0005	$444,723	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Evaluation of nuclear DNA from rootless hair for forensic purposes	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-DQ-BX-0014	$747,384	Closed
2020	Front-end differentiation of contributor cell populations and estimation of DNA content in trace biological samples using novel cellular signatures	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0023	$382,296	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2020	Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2020-R2-CX-0049	$1,063,335	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-MU-MU-4042	$393,503	Closed
2020	Methyl-PrepDisc: A Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for Forensic DNA Methylation Sample Preparation	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-R2-CX-0030	$147,766	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic DNA Profiles	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2020-DQ-BX-0022	$711,906	Closed
2020	Research and Development of a Rapid Approach for Identification of Calliphoridae Species Entomological Forensic Evidence Based on DART-HRMS-derived Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2020-MU-MU-0016	$731,306	Open
2020	Selectively analyzing and interpreting DNA from multiple donors with a full Single-Cell strategy	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY	NJ	2020-R2-CX-0032	$142,986	Closed
2020	Sex-Based Targeted Recovery of Cells in a Heterogeneous Mixture: Separating Male and Female Like Cells	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	NY	2020-DQ-BX-0019	$153,333	Closed
2020	Statistical evaluation of forensic sequencing profiles	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2020-R2-CX-0040	$107,205	Closed
2020	Utilizing eDNA from Four Biological Taxa Associated with Geologic Evidence for Sample-to-Sample Comparisons and Study Site Separation	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	2020-R2-CX-0035	$150,000	Closed
2019	A DNA Barcoding Strategy for Blow and Flesh Flies Encountered During Medicolegal Casework	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	HARRIS COUNTY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0022	$20,685	Closed
2019	Adaptation of the DNAse I procedure to the BiomekÂ® NXP robotic platform for more efficient and automated sexual assault sample processing	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019	VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	2019-NE-BX-0002	$250,636	Closed