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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.
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Subtopic: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 2,575
Total Amount Awarded: $1,348,165,038

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program, 2015-DN-BX-0065 NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TX 2015-DN-BX-4065 $196,262 Closed
2018 FY 2016 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - 2016-DN-BX-0125 NIJ FY18 Non-solicited Applications TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TX 2016-DN-BX-4125 $199,919 Closed
2018 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
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 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 Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2018-DU-BX-0218 $669,898 Closed
2018 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY18 Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $43,039 Closed
2017 A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples using a Microfluidic-Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE CA 2017-NE-BX-0004 $369,224 Closed
2017 A highly sensitive magnetic nanoparticle based method for reliable and efficient screening of forensic evidence samples NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes INNOGENOMICS TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. LA 2017-NE-BX-0007 $350,656 Closed
2017 A Low-Cost Isothermal Amplification Microdevice for Rapid Colorimetric Detection Applied to Body Fluid Identification and Y-screening NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2017-NE-BX-0008 $387,106 Closed
2017 An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA. NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $39,569 Closed
2017 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $7,455,832 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Bioinformatic Analaysis of Big Proteomic Data: A New Forensic Tool to Identify Menstrual Blood & Body Fluid Mixtures NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2017-NE-BX-0003 $667,774 Closed
2017 Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC IN 2017-IJ-CX-0003 $40,780 Closed
2017 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2017 Combined Extraction Method for Mitochondrial DNA and Proteins from Hair for Human Identification NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Battelle Memorial Institute OH 2017-DN-BX-0159 $398,546 Closed
2017 Determination of Key Factors in Particle Combination Analysis to Enable Systematic Improvement, Optimization and Transition to Practice NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes STONEY FORENSIC, INC. VA 2017-IJ-CX-0030 $951,264 Closed
2017 Developing forensic epigenomic age-estimation tools for diverse populations NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations The Research Foundation for the State University of New York NY 2016-DN-BX-0011 $49,788 Closed
2017 Developing SPLiT-Seq: A Massively Parallel Sequencing Method to Remove PCR Artifacts for Forensic STR Genotyping NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WA 2017-DN-BX-0160 $509,728 Closed