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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 Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2010 Development of a Sampling System to Stabilize Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations The Trustees of Indiana University IN 2010-DN-BX-K036 $239,025 Closed
2010 Establishing Blow Fly Development and Sampling Procedures to Estimate Postmortem Intervals NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2010-DN-BX-K231 $483,323 Closed
2010 Estimating Postmortem Interval: A Molecular Approach NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2010-DN-BX-K180 $462,492 Closed
2010 Estimation of Age at Death using Cortical Bone Histomorphometry NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2010-DN-BX-K035 $114,263 Closed
2010 Evaluating the Use of DNA and RNA Degradation for Estimating the Post-Mortem Interval NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development The University of Tennessee TN 2010-DN-BX-K228 $167,414 Closed
2010 Forensic Death Investigation Training NIJ FY 10 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program University of North Dakota ND 2010-DN-BX-K263 $999,876 Closed
2010 Funding for toxicologic testing to improve the quality and timeliness of toxicology services required to determine cause and manner of death FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Fulton County Medical Examiner GA 2010-CD-BX-0067 $55,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Hamilton County Coroner's Laboratory NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Hamilton County OH 2010-DN-BX-K062 $105,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 San Diego County Medical Examiner Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program NIJ FY 10 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program County of San Diego CA 2010-DN-BX-K258 $289,524 Closed
2010 Genetic Markers Associated with Sudden Unexplained Death or Sudden Infant Death NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development County of Harris, Texas TX 2010-DN-BX-K230 $254,521 Closed
2010 Improving the quality and timeliness of Coroner/Medical Examiner services in Clark County, Nevada FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Clark County, Nevada NV 2010-CD-BX-0079 $175,000 Closed
2010 Independent Validation Test of Microscopic Analysis of Saw Marks in Bone NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines County of Hrris, Texas TX 2010-DN-BX-K235 $26,409 Closed
2010 Investigation of a novel approach to forensic analysis using neutron imaging techniques NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE) 2008-IJ-R-134-1 $499,261 Closed
2010 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) - FY 10 Continuation Funding NIJ FY 10 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations National Forensic Science Technology Center FL 2007-IJ-CX-K023 $2,200,000 Closed
2010 Novel Computer-Assisted Identification Method Using Radiograph Comparison NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations Harris County TX 2010-DN-BX-K194 $366,561 Closed
2010 San Joaquin Coroner Improvement PlanTechnology upgrade FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office CA 2010-CD-BX-0055 $174,443 Closed
2010 Standards of Practice in Forensic Pathology - A Training Program for Medical Examiners and Coroners NIJ FY 10 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Michigan State University MI 2010-DN-BX-K262 $442,590 Closed
2010 Testing the Validity of Radiographic Comparisons inPositive Identifications NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines North Carolina State University NC 2010-DN-BX-K214 $284,763 Closed
2010 The Effects of Acquisition of Postmortem Blood Specimens on Drug Levels and the Effects of Transport Conditions on Degradation of Drugs NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines Iowa Department of Public Health IA 2010-DN-BX-K216 $167,697 Closed
2010 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identifcation Project: Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, FY 2010 NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K206 $2,808,508 Closed
2010 Utility of Postmortem X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in Supplanting or Supplementing Medicolegal Autopsies NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2010-DN-BX-K205 $895,832 Closed
2009 City of New York, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Science Training Grant NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2009-DN-BX-K205 $1,000,000 Closed
2009 Development and Delivery of Web Based Training for Practitioners of Medicolegal Death Investigations NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-DN-BX-K115 $715,977 Closed
2009 El Paso County Offcie of the Coroner Toxicology Laboratory Improvement NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program El Paso County CO 2009-CD-BX-0061 $113,800 Closed
2009 FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Orange County Sheriff Coroner Department NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program County of Orange CA 2009-DN-BX-K094 $475,294 Closed