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

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	A Combined Molecular Analysis of Pollen Utilizing Lipid Profiling & DNA Barcoding for Plant Species Identification: A Forensic Application	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01571-RESS	$120,000	Open
2024	A Comparative Evaluation of the MinION and MiSeq Sequencing Platforms for the Analysis of Human Hand Microbial Profiles for Forensic Investigations.	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-24-GG-03842-SLFO	$487,790	Open
2024	Age estimation from epigenetic features of hair DNA	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	15PNIJ-24-GG-03843-SLFO	$640,358	Open
2024	Best Practices for Forensic Laboratories Adopting Probabilistic Genotyping Systems	NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	15PNIJ-24-GG-03877-NIJB	$500,000	Open
2024	DNA mixture interpretation of SNP sequencing data for investigative genetic genealogy	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF COLORADO	CO	15PNIJ-24-GG-01568-RESS	$120,000	Open
2024	Droplet digital PCR: assessing the increased performance for DNA quantification in forensic science	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	15PNIJ-24-GG-03854-SLFO	$422,235	Open
2024	Effects of insects and soils on the assembly of universal microbial decomposers and prediction of postmortem interval	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-24-GG-03839-RESD	$481,616	Open
2024	Guiding Interpretation: Leveraging High-Density SNP Data from Major U.S. Populations for Forensic Genetic Analyses	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-25-RO-0002	$990,468	Open
2024	Investigations Toward Development of a Technique for Rapid Identification of Forensically Relevant Necrophagous Beetle Species for Postmortem Interval Determination	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	15PNIJ-24-GG-01567-RESS	$111,822	Open
2024	The Impact of Processing and Sampling Procedures on the Integrity of Forensically Relevant Biomolecules in Bones	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-03841-SLFO	$823,669	Open
2024	The potential of hybridization capture to permit species identification in challenging leathers	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	15PNIJ-24-GG-01549-MUMU	$232,857	Open
2023	Capturing nuclear DNA from hair shafts	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)	DC	15PNIJ-23-GG-04209-DNAX	$413,504	Open
2023	Democratizing investigative genetic genealogy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04213-DNAX	$759,008	Open
2023	Development of a Stable Matrix-Matched Standard for Molecular and Elemental Analysis of Hair in Forensic Toxicology	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01945-RESS	$110,966	Open
2023	Development of computational methods for genetic identification and kinship analysis of forensic samples	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01948-RESS	$111,000	Open
2023	Developmental Validation of a Novel Multi-analyte Recovery Method for Trace Biological Samples	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	15PNIJ-23-GG-04207-DNAX	$494,268	Open
2023	Evaluation of cell capture and collection from bone	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01944-RESS	$55,488	Past Project Period End Date
2023	Evaluation of Target Enrichment for SNP Genotyping of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-04224-RESS	$659,287	Open
2023	Impact of Relic DNA on Forensic Microbiome Applications in Criminal Investigations	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04205-RESS	$229,454	Open
2023	Mechanics of Retinal Hemmorhage in Abusive Head Trauma	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	UT	15PNIJ-23-GG-04211-SLFO	$604,409	Open
2023	Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED	NV	15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS	$111,000	Open
2023	Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU	$431,892	Open
2023	Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS	$513,529	Open
2023	Quantifying the accuracy of low quality DNA sample analysis from genotyping to genealogical searching and integration as a bioinformatic pipeline	NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	UNIVERSITY OF OREGON	OR	15PNIJ-23-AG-04262-DNAX	$266,406	Open
2023	Quantitative and visual prediction of eye, hair and skin color from DNA	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04206-RESS	$980,527	Open