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

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Subtopic: Forensic biology

Number of Awards: 364
Total Amount Awarded: $172,946,022

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2016 A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics Non-solicited Applications The University of Chicago IL 2015-DN-BX-K430 $564,735 Closed
2016 A rotational platform-driven microdevice for differential separation, purification, & amplification of sexual assault forensic samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-NE-BX-0002 $676,460 Closed
2016 An investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $38,683 Closed
2016 Automation of a Sperm DNA Capture Assay for Forensic Applications Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes General Electric Company NY 2016-DN-BX-0156 $499,994 Closed
2016 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2016 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2016 Developing forensic epigenomic age-estimation tools for diverse populations NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics The Research Foundation for the State University of New York NY 2016-DN-BX-0011 $49,653 Closed
2016 Development and Evaluation of miRNA Panels for Body Fluid Identification Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Massively Parallel Sequencing Methods NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sam Houston State University TX 2016-DN-BX-0001 $47,186 Open
2016 Development of a Quantifiable Confirmatory Test to Detect Fly Artifacts Contaminating Bloodstain Evidence Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Loyola University Maryland MD 2016-DN-BX-0181 $154,521 Closed
2016 Development of a White-tailed Deer Genetic Database for the Forensic Identification of Poached Individuals Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations West Virginia University WV 2015-R2-CX-0010 $50,000 Closed
2016 Development of NGS (next generation sequencing) nomenclature framework Non-solicited Applications National Institute of Standards and Technology 2016-DNR-6150 $748,000 Closed
2016 Developmental validation of a miRNA panel for forensic body fluid identification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2016-DN-BX-0163 $256,626 Closed
2016 DNA from Burned Bone: The application of ancient DNA methods to forensic DNA recovery Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2016-DN-BX-0158 $657,544 Closed
2016 Engineering a High-Fidelity, Damage-Tolerant Polymerase for the Forensic Analysis of Damaged DNA Samples Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Northeastern University MA 2015-R2-CX-0011 $46,567 Closed
2016 Enhancing and Sustaining the ALFRED-FROG-KB Forensic Resource Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Yale University CT 2016-DN-BX-0162 $1,062,736 Open
2016 Evaluating Massive Parallel Sequencing for Missing Persons Identification. Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2016-DN-BX-0172 $474,130 Closed
2016 Further Development of Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation: Method Advancement and Validation Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany NY 2015-R2-CX-0019 $46,083 Closed
2016 Graduate Research Fellowship: Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid OnsiteScreening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biologicalsamples Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0034 $50,000 Open
2016 High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent and Partial Bloody Fingerprints After Visualization with the Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE PA 2016-DN-BX-0153 $397,643 Closed
2016 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $49,045 Closed
2016 Measuring Rates of mtDNA Heteroplasmy in Different Population Groups Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK PA 2016-DN-BX-0171 $295,249 Closed