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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 sciences

Number of Awards: 4,873
Total Amount Awarded: $2,268,174,523

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2022 Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis-derived Finished Products for Forensic Laboratories Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 National Institute of Standards and Technology DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0002 $463,932 Open
2022 Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO $395,516 Open
2022 Applied Research in the Characterization, Identification, and Comparison of Pigmented Fiber Evidence MICROTRACE LLC IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-04185-RESS $167,469 Open
2022 Aptamer-Based Oral Fluid Testing Device for Roadside Screening of Recent Marijuana Use in Drivers NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY NC 15PNIJ-22-GG-04440-RESS $359,373 Open
2022 Assessing the reliability of modern µXRF technology for expanded impact on the forensic examination and interpretation of trace evidence NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-22-GG-03571-SLFO $388,814 Open
2022 Breath Measurements of Acute Cannabis Use (BACE): Towards Reliable Determination of Recent Use Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 National Institute of Standards and Technology DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0003 $1,450,809 Open
2022 Comparative Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing STR kits with the Emphasis on Mixture Deconvolution Utilizing Probabilistic Genotyping. NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 15PNIJ-22-GG-03560-SLFO $297,292 Open
2022 DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS $567,920 Open
2022 Development of a colorimetric breath analyzer for THC NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04437-RESS $170,834 Open
2022 DNA Typing Strategies for Identification of Human Remains via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-22-GG-04414-MUMU $650,390 Open
2022 Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research. NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO $289,496 Open
2022 Evaluation of the Occurrence and Associative Value of NonIdentifiable Fingermarks on Unfired Ammunition in Handguns for Evidence Supporting Proof of Criminal Possession, Use and Intent STONEY FORENSIC, INC. VA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04192-RESS $640,293 Open
2022 Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU $834,503 Open
2022 FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN MEDIUM RANGE IGNITABLE LIQUIDS AND THE USE OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY TO DEMONSTRATE DATA SUFFICIENCY NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 15PNIJ-22-GG-03577-SLFO $141,921 Open
2022 FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS $300,000 Open
2022 Footwear Databasing to Support Forensic Intelligence NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-22-GG-04429-RESS $623,965 Open
2022 Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO $1,087,985 Open
2022 Forensic STR Sequencing Nomenclature Resource Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 National Institute of Standards and Technology DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0004 $541,034 Open
2022 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU $4,000,000 Open
2022 Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO $139,905 Open
2022 Identifying the Scope and Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in New Mexico and Improving MMIP Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 15PNIJ-22-GG-01625-REVA $249,382 Open
2022 Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $485,938 Open
2022 Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS $306,271 Open
2022 Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures NOBLIS, INC. VA 2020-R2-CX-0049 $132,817 Open
2022 Interagency Agreement to Support Graduate Research Internships in Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Contexts (NSF-NIJ INTERN) NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2022 National Science Foundation DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0008 $200,000 Open