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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Number of Awards: 1,860
Total Amount Awarded: $932,439,690

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0013	$279,983	Closed
2019	Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0025	$808,296	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Identification and Analysis of Body Fluid Traces Using ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-R2-CX-0006	$49,997	Closed
2019	Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2017-R2-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2019	Improving Results from Touch DNA Evidence with Optimized Direct PCR Methods	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	2019-DU-BX-0009	$453,146	Closed
2019	Incarceration and Desistance: Evidence from a Natural Policy Experiment	Research into Desistance from Crime, FY 2019	RAND CORP	CA	2019-R2-CX-0031	$599,510	Closed
2019	Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Research Project	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-MU-MU-0095	$657,908	Closed
2019	mtGenome Sequencing of Human Hair Shafts Using an MPS Approach	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2019-DU-BX-0045	$878,274	Closed
2019	Nanobiosensor Arrays for On-Site Multiplexed Detection of Protein Markers to Identify Forensically Relevant Body Fluids	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE	CA	2019-NE-BX-0006	$600,544	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2019	Optimizing the Analysis of DNA From Burned Bone Using Ancient DNA Techniques	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2019-DU-BX-0044	$783,744	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Personal Identification and Ancestral Characterization from Genetically Variant Peptides in Human Hair	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2019-R2-CX-0051	$50,000	Closed
2019	Phase II Metabolites of Drugs in Hair: A Potential Solution for Environmental Contamination	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2019-DU-BX-0021	$295,625	Closed
2019	Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population	Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2019-R2-CX-0017	$239,196	Closed
2019	Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)	DC	2019-DU-BX-0023	$192,764	Closed
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	Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0044	$100,000	Closed
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	A Novel, Trauma-Informed Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Perpetration in Racially Diverse Adolescents: A Multi-Site Study	NIJ FY18 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-R2-CX-0022	$249,425	Closed
2018	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$5,000,000	Past Project Period End Date
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