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Expanded Quantitative Cannabinoid Testing in Biological Specimens to Combat the Ever Changing Cannabis Landscape

Date Published

February 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Advances in Detecting and Identifying Explosives After an Attack

New Forensic Methods to Accurately Determine THC in Seized Cannabis

Date Published

February 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances

Date Published

December 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

New Forensic Methods to Accurately Determine THC in Seized Cannabis

Date Published

February 13, 2024

NIJ-funded researchers address the need for simple, cost-effective ways to differentiate hemp from marijuana.

Transitioning surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) into the forensic drug chemistry and toxicology laboratory: Current and future perspectives

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Comparison of High-Resolution and Dynamic Reaction Cell ICP-MS Capabilities for Forensic Analysis of Iron in Glass

Date Published

2008

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Gas Chromatography With Tandem Cold Electron Ionization Mass Spectrometric Detection and Vacuum Ultraviolet Detection for the Comprehensive Analysis of Fentanyl Analogues

Date Published

July 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Drug Screening in Forensic Toxicology: A Cost Benefit Analysis

Date Published

2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Forgotten Evidence: A Mixed Methods Study of Why Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs) Are Not Submitted for DNA Forensic Testing

Date Published

October 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Stability of Synthetic Cathinones in Urine

Date Published

March 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Secure and Robust Cloud Computing for High-Throughput Forensic Microsatellite Sequence Analysis and Databasing

Date Published

November 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Identification and Quantification of Synthetic Cathinones in Blood and Urine Using Liquid Chromatography-Quadrupole/Time of Flight (LC-Q/TOF) Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

November 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Crime Lab Accreditation Initiative

Date Published

January 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Crime Lab Accreditation Initiative

Just Science Podcast: Just Enhancing Research to Improve Tech Transition

Date Published

January 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Flow cytometry dataset for cells collected from touched surfaces

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Analysis of red autofluorescence (650-670nm) in epidermal cell populations and its potential for distinguishing contributors to ‘touch’ biological samples

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Corrigendum to “Relatedness calculations for linked loci incorporating subpopulation effects”

Date Published

September 2013

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Validation of two methods for the quantitative analysis of cocaine and opioids in biological matrices using LCMSMS

Date Published

2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

An interlaboratory study to evaluate the utility of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-infrared spectroscopy spectral libraries in the forensic analysis of fentanyl-related substances

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Improving Forensic Technology Transition

Date Published

January 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Analysis of "Trace DNA" Evidence

Date Published

January 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Improving Analysis of “Trace DNA” Evidence

FBI subaward to SDSU project 15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU "Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems"

O2308-015-015-012164

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Funding First Awarded

2023

$59,332