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: 334
Total Amount Awarded: $163,455,615

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Quantifying the Accuracy of Two Innovative Forensic Genetic Identification Techniques: Genealogical Searching and Low-Template DNA Mixture Analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY	CA	2019-DU-BX-0028	$395,773	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2019-DU-BX-0003	$399,699	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Verification and evaluation of a miRNA panel for body fluid identification using DNA extracts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2019-NE-BX-0005	$169,628	Closed
2018	A fully continuous machine learning approach to predict the number of contributors in sequence-based DNA profiles	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	NY	2018-DU-BX-0202	$431,917	Closed
2018	Autosomal DNA-STR Profiling of Directly Captured Spermatozoa from Post-Coital (3-10 Days) Cervico-Vaginal Samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-NE-BX-0001	$600,704	Closed
2018	Better algorithms and chemistry for mixture interpretation	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2018-DU-BX-0177	$694,525	Closed
2018	Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	YALE UNIVERSITY	CT	2018-75-CX-0041	$1,083,499	Closed
2018	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
2018	Characterization of Personal and Condom Lubricants using DART-TOFMS and Comprehensive GC-MS	NIJ FY18 Continuations	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0004	$50,000	Closed
2018	Development of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear STR and SNP Markers	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND	CA	2018-DU-BX-0183	$696,362	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Development of Portable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive Characterization of Drugs in Human Biofluids	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-75-CX-0034	$445,244	Past Project Period End Date
2018	DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-R2-CX-0016	$49,981	Closed
2018	DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2018-DU-BX-0205	$477,609	Closed
2018	DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2018-DU-BX-0179	$634,973	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Ensuring standards and enhancing the field of predictive biometrics using a globally-diverse genotype-phenotype database	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-DU-BX-0219	$651,242	Closed
2018	Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology for Routine Forensic Casework	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0166	$390,646	Closed
2018	Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	2018-DU-BX-0206	$487,647	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0017	$150,000	Closed
2018	Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint	NIJ FY18 Continuations	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2016-DN-BX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-1	$649,938	Closed
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	MA	2018-DU-BX-0192	$649,938	Closed
2018	Population distribution and factors affecting individual DNA shedding propensity	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	NY	2018-DU-BX-0203	$332,893	Closed
2018	Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2018-R2-CX-0019	$97,328	Closed
2018	Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	NJ	2018-DU-BX-0185	$546,727	Closed
2018	Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0204	$450,243	Closed