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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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Medicolegal death investigations

Number of Awards: 202
Total Amount Awarded: $128,999,580

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Chicago IL 2017-MU-MU-0042 $532,286 Closed
2017 Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2016-DN-BX-0010 $50,000 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY TN 2017-DN-BX-0146 $377,535 Closed
2017 Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2017-R2-CX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2017 Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2017-R2-CX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2016 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) National Missing and Unidentified Persons System UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $4,700,000 Past Project Period End Date
2016 Evaluation of The Use of A Contactless, Three-Dimensional Scanner for Collecting Postmortem Fingerprints from Unidentified Human Remains Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FlashScan3D, LLC TX 2016-DN-BX-0180 $591,262 Closed
2016 Facilitating Forensic Research in Multiple Fields Using a Unique Computed Tomography Dataset Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, THE NM 2016-DN-BX-0144 $702,654 Closed
2016 Fluvial Transport of Human Remains: Forensic Application of a HEC-RAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES CA 2016-DN-BX-0159 $866,896 Past Project Period End Date
2016 Habitat Specialization and the Evolution of Dispersal Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2016-DN-BX-0194 $684,273 Closed
2016 ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2016-DN-BX-0179 $327,372 Closed
2016 Investigating upper thermal limits of forensically important blow flies to improve testimony in forensic entomology Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH TX 2016-DN-BX-0204 $540,545 Closed
2016 Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2016-DN-BX-0010 $50,000 Past Project Period End Date
2015 "FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program" - Hamilton County Coroner's Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Hamilton County OH 2015-DN-BX-0093 $164,327 Closed
2015 2015 California Coverdell Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2015-CD-BX-0036 $916,081 Closed
2015 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Forensic Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of San Mateo CA 2015-DN-BX-0080 $166,034 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection CT 2015-CD-BX-0001 $85,940 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Florida Department of Law Enforcement FL 2015-CD-BX-0048 $467,279 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2015-CD-BX-0068 $197,409 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program-Washington State Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Washington State Patrol WA 2015-CD-BX-0057 $166,604 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Program for Louisiana NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement LA 2015-CD-BX-0044 $110,541 Closed
2015 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 15 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $5,000,000 Closed
2015 Case Completion Time Improvement and Backlog Reduction Program for The Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Monroe County NY 2015-CD-BX-0018 $174,968 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 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Grant NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program North Dakota ND 2015-DN-BX-0071 $150,000 Closed