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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 Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Development of White-tailed Deer Genetic Database for the Forensic Identification of Poached Samples NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics West Virginia University WV 2015-R2-CX-0010 $50,000 Closed
2015 DNA Backlog Reduction and Capacity Enhancement FY15 NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Montgomery County OH 2015-DN-BX-0109 $212,261 Closed
2015 DNA Capacity and Backlog NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-0118 $1,450,000 Closed
2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Houston Forensic Science Center, Inc TX 2015-DN-BX-0072 $1,172,752 Closed
2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement & Backlog Reduction Program - St. Charles County NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program St. Charles County MO 2015-DN-BX-0035 $76,500 Closed
2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Massachusetts State Police MA 2015-DN-BX-0108 $1,275,624 Closed
2015 DNA methylation analysis using High Resolution Melt for body fluid identification in forensic sciences NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0012 $49,994 Closed
2015 Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid On-site Screening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biological samples. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-0034 $50,000 Open
2015 Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Northeastern University MA 2015-R2-CX-0011 $45,863 Closed
2015 Enhanced Capacity in the Colorado Springs Metro Crime Laboratory (MCL) DNA Analysis Unit through Personnel and Supplies NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Colorado Springs CO 2015-DN-BX-0025 $127,190 Closed
2015 Enhancement of the Forensic Biology Lab of the York County Sheriff's Office NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of York SC 2015-DN-BX-0100 $100,000 Closed
2015 Enhancing Mixture Interpretation with Highly Informative STRs NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-DN-BX-K067 $585,415 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Efficiency of the Use of the Qiagen® QIAsymphony® with High Throughput Y-screening as an Alternative to Conventional Serology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Marshall University Research Corporation WV 2015-R2-CX-K039 $154,577 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego CA 2014-R2-CX-K411 $637,942 Closed
2015 Evaluation and Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Bullet Cartridge Cases NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation PA 2015-DN-BX-K059 $494,630 Open
2015 Exoneration of the Innocent in the State of Hawaii through Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HI 2015-DY-BX-K002 $410,492 Closed
2015 Fiscal Year 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection CT 2015-DN-BX-0019 $532,083 Closed
2015 Front End Separation of Compromised Blood Mixtures for Single Source DNA Profiling NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-DN-BX-K024 $295,236 Closed
2015 Further Development of Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation: Method Advancement and Validation NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany NY 2015-R2-CX-0019 $42,520 Closed
2015 FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Fort Worth NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Fort Worth TX 2015-DN-BX-0038 $87,759 Closed
2015 FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program St. Louis Metropolitan Police Dept MO 2015-CD-BX-0016 $150,900 Closed
2015 FY 2014 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Delaware, State of DE 2014-DN-BX-4052 $292,368 Closed
2015 FY 2015 Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction - Virginia DFS NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2015-DN-BX-0046 $913,390 Closed
2015 FY 2015 City of Phoenix Police Department DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program. NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Phoenix Police Department AZ 2015-DN-BX-0122 $451,749 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Backlog Reduction Grant - San Francisco NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City And County of San Francisco CA 2015-DN-BX-0002 $419,630 Closed