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Census and Surveillance Efforts: Insight into the U.S. Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) System Process, Infrastructure, Trends and Challenges

Event Dates

July 22, 2018, 12:00 am – July 26, 2019, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners Symposium

Forensic Science Research and Development Technology Working Group: Operational Requirements

The Value of Nonhuman Animal Models in Forensic Decomposition Research

Development of a Comprehensive Workflow for Postmortem Insulin Testing in Cases of Suspected Insulin Homicide

2018-75-CX-0039

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$299,529

Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition

2018-DU-BX-0215

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$642,979

ENHANCING FOUNDATIONAL VALIDITY OF FORENSIC FINDINGS IN MEDICO-LEGAL STRANGULATION EXAMINATIONS

2018-VA-CX-0004

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$726,344

Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model

2018-DU-BX-0188

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$323,392

A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine

2016-DN-BX-0002

Open

Funding First Awarded

2018

$49,832

Just Science Podcast: Episode 46: Drugs: Just the State of Pathology

Date Published

May 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Interview

Success Story: Creating an International Databank of Skeletal Biomarkers for Human Identification

Date Published

September 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description, Factsheet

Using Advanced Imaging Technologies to Enhance Autopsy Practices

Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations

2017-MU-MU-0042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$532,286

Understanding the Pathology of Homicidal Pediatric Blunt Neurotrauma through Correlation of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Images with Histopathology

2017-DN-BX-0145

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$598,632

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the investigation and prosecution of heroin-related overdose

2017-DN-BX-0168

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$975,401

Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database

2017-DN-BX-0166

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$576,060

Quantifying the Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors to Improve Juvenile Age Estimation

2017-DN-BX-0144

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$561,528

Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children

2017-DN-BX-0158

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$599,878

A Comparison of Postmortem and Perimortem Rib Fracture Patterns in Articulated and Disarticulated Ribs

2017-IJ-CX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$50,000

Optimizing Bone Loss Across the Lifespan: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Porosity in the Human Femoral Neck and Rib As a Metric of Bone Fragility

2017-MU-CX-0009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$50,000

Opioids and Death Investigation: A "Perfect Storm"

Event Dates

October 3, 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

Opioid Crisis: A Public Health Webinar Series

A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine

2016-DN-BX-0002

Open

Funding First Awarded

2017

$48,818

Quantifying Error Rates for the Measurement of Human Skeletal Remains

Date Published

July 10, 2017

In response to the National Academy of Sciences’ call for scientific data to support forensic evidence, researchers revised forensic anthropology procedures to include an “error metric” for the measurement of human skeletal remains.

Stable Isotope Forensics & Unknown Persons Investigations

Event Dates

May 24, 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center Webinar Series

Interpretation of Patterned Injuries in Medicolegal Death Investigation

Date Published

February 2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

Reconstructing Fragmentary Skeletal Remains