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
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
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	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	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	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	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 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
2017	Development of a Forensic Quality Mitogenome Haplotype Database from 5000 High Quality Samples Using Next-Generation Sequencing Methods	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-17-RO-0219	$469,083	Open
2017	Development of a Mitochondrial Mixture Database and Interpretation Tool	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2017-DN-BX-0134	$556,910	Closed
2017	Differentiating Monozygotic Twins with DNA Methylation Technology	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NC State University	NC	2017-DN-BX-0178	$207,427	Closed
2017	Efficient sequencing and analysis of degraded and trace DNA samples using a novel targeted ligation-free method	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARC BIO LLC	MA	2017-DN-BX-0140	$993,718	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid On-site Screening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biological Samples	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0034	$49,996	Open
2017	Implementation of epigenetics into forensic science: Development of a PCR based multiplex for the simultaneous analysis of age and body fluid identification	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-NE-BX-0001	$368,512	Closed
2017	Massively parallel sequencing of 89 microhaplotypes for the selection of an operational and effective subset for forensic applications.	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	DC	2017-DN-BX-0164	$492,892	Closed
2017	Nanoscale Imaging and Chemical Analysis of Extracellular DNA in Trace Evidence Samples	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2017-DN-BX-0186	$311,609	Closed
2017	Non-destructive, enhanced collection and recovery from difficult forensic samples, improving the "front end" processes of DNA typing	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-DN-BX-0137	$286,931	Closed
2017	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic DNA Profiles	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2017-DN-BX-0136	$903,440	Closed
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	Quantifying and Qualifying the Influence of Standard Laboratory Procedures on Aged, Degraded, and/or Low Copy Number DNA	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2017-DN-BX-0139	$997,831	Closed
2017	Raman spectroscopy for analyzing body fluid traces: Universal method development	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-DN-BX-0135	$681,275	Closed
2016	A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	IsoForensics, Inc.	UT	2016-DN-BX-0157	$268,648	Closed