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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Number of Awards: 2,580
Total Amount Awarded: $1,350,489,246

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
2019	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY19 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$5,500,000	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-75-CX-0017	$443,931	Closed
2019	Assessment of Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence Selection Leading to Development of SAK Evidence Machine-Learning Model (SAK-ML Model)	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019	DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE UTAH	UT	2019-NE-BX-0001	$250,000	Closed
2019	Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2017-IJ-CX-0003	$50,000	Closed
2019	Completion of the SONIC-DE 2.0 System for Implementation in Forensic Laboratories	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2019-NE-BX-0004	$175,791	Closed
2019	Dense DNA Data for Enhanced Missing Persons Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2019-DU-BX-0046	$743,927	Closed
2019	Determining Time Since Deposition of Epithelial Cell Samples Using Intrinsic Fluorescence Signatures	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2019-DU-BX-0041	$469,468	Closed
2019	Development of a 2bRAD-seq Paternity Testing Pipeline for Complex and Mixed DNA Samples	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	TX	2019-R2-CX-0049	$150,000	Closed