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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: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 2,584
Total Amount Awarded: $1,352,126,447

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 2015 Coverdell Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Texas TX 2015-CD-BX-0007 $632,066 Closed
2015 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Broward Sheriff's Office FL 2015-DN-BX-0092 $456,832 Closed
2015 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Allegheny County Pennsylvania PA 2015-DN-BX-0110 $271,948 Closed
2015 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Vermont Department of Public Safety VT 2015-DN-BX-0029 $150,000 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 Montgomery County, MD FY 2015 DNA Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Montgomery County MD 2015-DN-BX-0007 $101,010 Closed
2015 2015 NIJ DNA Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of Washoe NV 2015-DN-BX-0097 $350,000 Closed
2015 2015 Postconviction DNA Testing Program NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts NC 2015-DY-BX-K001 $565,639 Closed
2015 2015 SLED DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program South Carolina Law Enforcement Division SC 2015-DN-BX-0045 $934,421 Closed
2015 A PLan for the State of Wisconsin to reduce DNA backlogs-Wisconsin Department of Justice, Crime Laboratory Bureau NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Wisconsin Department of Justice WI 2015-DN-BX-0081 $899,637 Closed
2015 Achieving Justice in Wisconsin''s Hispanic Community: Post-conviction DNA testing for the Hispanic community NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System WI 2015-DY-BX-K006 $633,170 Closed
2015 An automated dielectrophoretic-based single cell separation technique to improve laboratory efficiency, mixture deconvolution and combat sample inhibition NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2015-NE-BX-K002 $155,189 Closed
2015 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. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $37,788 Closed
2015 Analyzing evidential material associated with criminal investigations for the City of Oakland, California NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Oakland - Oakland Police Department CA 2015-DN-BX-0106 $474,282 Closed
2015 Assessing the Effects of DNA Damage on Next Generation mtDNA Sequencing NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK PA 2015-DN-BX-K025 $654,662 Closed
2015 Automation of Differential Extraction with Sperm Quantitation usingMicrofluidic-Integrated Shadow Imaging System for Forensic Applications NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2015-DN-BX-K037 $614,499 Closed
2015 Boston Police Department-DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2015-DN-BX-0099 $283,811 Closed
2015 Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants NIJ FY 15 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K025 $188,198 Closed
2015 Coverdell 15 NIJ NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Long Beach CA 2015-CD-BX-0073 $50,011 Closed
2015 Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Sexual Assault Kit Backlogs and their Criminal Justice Consequences NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program Baylor College of Medicine TX 2015-R2-CX-0040 $39,999 Closed
2015 Design and Implementation of Forensic Facial Identification Experts Test NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Texas at Dallas TX 2015-IJ-CX-K014 $639,450 Closed
2015 Development of a Comprehensive Genetic Tool for Identification of Cannabis Sativa Samples for Forensic and Intelligence Purposes NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sam Houston State University TX 2015-R2-CX-0030 $46,008 Closed
2015 Development of a Self-sustaining, Open Access Forensic STR Sequence Diversity Database NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NC State University NC 2015-DN-BX-K062 $945,746 Closed
2015 Development of PCR-Free DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time High Throughput Sequencing NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-DN-BX-K068 $719,633 Closed
2015 Development of SERS-active forensic evidence swabs for rapid, non-destructive confirmatory serological screening and STR typing of human bodily fluids NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Western Carolina University NC 2015-NE-BX-K003 $346,740 Closed