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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: Medicolegal death investigations

Number of Awards: 315
Total Amount Awarded: $176,749,932

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 Metabolism and Analysis of Desomorphine Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Sam Houston State University TX 2015-R2-CX-0031 $46,008 Closed
2016 Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2016-DN-BX-0010 $50,000 Past Project Period End Date
2016 Skull fracture patterns from head impact in infants Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 2016-DN-BX-0160 $590,938 Closed
2015 "FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program" - Hamilton County Coroner's Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Hamilton County OH 2015-DN-BX-0093 $164,327 Closed
2015 2015 California Coverdell Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2015-CD-BX-0036 $916,081 Closed
2015 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Forensic Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of San Mateo CA 2015-DN-BX-0080 $166,034 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection CT 2015-CD-BX-0001 $85,940 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Florida Department of Law Enforcement FL 2015-CD-BX-0048 $467,279 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2015-CD-BX-0068 $197,409 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program-Washington State Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Washington State Patrol WA 2015-CD-BX-0057 $166,604 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Program for Louisiana NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement LA 2015-CD-BX-0044 $110,541 Closed
2015 A Macromorphoscopic Databank: Establishing the Statistical Analysis of Macromorphoscopic Data in Forensic Anthropology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-DN-BX-K012 $423,959 Closed
2015 An Interactive Morphological Database for Estimating Sex in Modern Adults NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Mercyhurst University PA 2015-DN-BX-K014 $126,871 Closed
2015 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 15 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $5,000,000 Closed
2015 Biomechanical Investigation of the Effect of Bone Disorders on Pediatric Femur Fracture Potential NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. KY 2015-DN-BX-K018 $533,978 Closed
2015 Building a Science of Adult Cranial Fracture NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-DN-BX-K013 $564,875 Closed
2015 Case Completion Time Improvement and Backlog Reduction Program for The Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Monroe County NY 2015-CD-BX-0018 $174,968 Closed
2015 Development and Validation of Two Innovative Quantitative Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Methods for Forensic Toxicology Laboratories NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Department of Forensic Science VA 2015-DN-BX-K008 $149,504 Closed
2015 Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S.Forensic Practice NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Idaho State University ID 2015-DN-BX-K009 $510,409 Closed
2015 Enhancing Molecular Autopsies through High Throughout Function Assays and Family Studies of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Variants in Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K017 $712,168 Closed
2015 Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a replacement screening tool. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Washington State Patrol WA 2015-DN-BX-K055 $150,000 Closed
2015 Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2015-DN-BX-K019 $250,024 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Grant NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program North Dakota ND 2015-DN-BX-0071 $150,000 Closed
2015 FY 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula-based Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services OH 2015-CD-BX-0055 $276,522 Closed
2015 FY15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Alaska Dept of Public Safety AK 2015-CD-BX-0064 $63,705 Closed