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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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Subtopic: Forensic biology

Number of Awards: 334
Total Amount Awarded: $163,455,615

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 FY2015 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - County of Alameda, California NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program County of Alameda, California CA 2015-DN-BX-0121 $223,062 Closed
2015 FY2015 Paul Coverdell National Forensic Science (PCNFS) Improvement Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Missouri Department of Public Safety MO 2015-CD-BX-0022 $144,445 Closed
2015 Highly efficient sperm cell separation from sexual assault samples for DNA analysis using novel polymer filter technology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes InnoGenomics Technologies, LLC LA 2015-DN-BX-K072 $348,796 Closed
2015 Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-NE-BX-K006 $589,701 Closed
2015 Improved sample collection and preservation of DNA from decomposing human remains; A direct PCR approach for faster disaster victim identification (DVI) NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sam Houston State University TX 2015-R2-CX-0029 $46,008 Closed
2015 Intra-Bone Variation of Recoverable Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA from Human Skeletal Material NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-DN-BX-K036 $121,087 Closed
2015 Jefferson County Regional Crime Lab DNA Capactiy Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Jefferson County CO 2015-DN-BX-0064 $100,000 Closed
2015 Nanotrace: Applications of subvisible to nanoscale particles in trace evidence NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Microtrace LLC IL 2015-DN-BX-K033 $378,701 Closed
2015 NIJ FY DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program 2015-91397-NC-DN NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NC Department of Justice NC 2015-DN-BX-0086 $1,601,270 Closed
2015 Optimized, Semi-Automated Differential DNA Extraction (Denver PD Crime Laboratory) NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence City and County of Denver - Denver Police Department CO 2015-NE-BX-K005 $51,699 Closed
2015 Photo-dissolvable Swabs for Improved Recovery of Forensic Samples NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes General Electric Company NY 2015-DN-BX-K042 $497,708 Closed
2015 Population Genetic Issues for Forensic Y-chromosome Markers NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Washington WA 2015-R2-CX-0020 $48,922 Closed
2015 Proteomic and microRNA markers of fly development: Stable correlates of insect age to improve forensic entomology casework NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Texas A&M AgriLife Research TX 2015-DN-BX-K020 $546,742 Open
2015 qPCR Genotype Determination and Mixture Detection Using High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis of STR Loci NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-MU-MU-K026 $321,328 Closed
2015 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes (DVI) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2015-DN-BX-K066 $724,799 Closed
2015 State of Nebraska - DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program State of Nebraska NE 2015-DN-BX-0102 $276,018 Closed
2015 Statewide NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program New Mexico Department of Public Safety NM 2015-DN-BX-0117 $720,453 Closed
2015 The FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program for Anoka County - Tri County Regional Forensic Laboratory NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Anoka County of MN 2015-DN-BX-0023 $55,500 Closed
2015 The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Philadelphia PA 2015-DN-BX-0033 $966,068 Closed
2015 Ultrahigh speed Direct PCR. A method for obtaining STR based genotypes in under 6 minutes NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-K038 $400,265 Closed
2015 Use of Genetically Variant Peptides to Statistically Estimate the Genetic Background of Hair Shafts NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2015-DN-BX-K065 $397,337 Closed
2015 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K040 $277,667 Closed
2015 Validation of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analysis NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Children''s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland CA 2015-DN-BX-K053 $758,184 Closed
2014 2014 Denver Cold Case Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City and County of Denver CO 2014-DN-BX-K073 $125,000 Closed
2014 A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2014-DN-BX-K029 $213,372 Closed