Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases
2018-DU-BX-0181
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$354,751
Forensic pathology
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
Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples
2018-DU-BX-0206
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2018
$487,647
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
Estimating the Postmortem Interval at Longer Timescales Using Bone
2018-R2-CX-0018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$150,000
The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.
2018-R2-CX-0014
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$106,701
Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data
2018-R2-CX-0017
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$150,000
Just Science Podcast: Episode 46: Drugs: Just the State of Pathology
Date Published
May 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Using Advanced Imaging Technologies to Enhance Autopsy Practices
Date Published
December 9, 2017
Making imaging technologies available to forensic pathologists as common practice — although not without challenges — will help improve medicolegal death investigations in the United States.
Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations
2017-MU-MU-0042
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$532,286
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
Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children
2017-DN-BX-0158
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$599,878
Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization
2017-R2-CX-0004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$50,000
Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids
2017-DN-BX-0146
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$377,535
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
Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice
2015-DN-BX-K409
Open
Funding First Awarded
2017
$404,255
Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths
2017-IJ-CX-0002
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$36,148
Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss
2017-R2-CX-0008
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
A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine
2016-DN-BX-0002
Open
Funding First Awarded
2017
$48,818
Interpretation of Patterned Injuries in Medicolegal Death Investigation
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Reconstructing Fragmentary Skeletal Remains
Date Published
February 1, 2017