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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Number of Awards: 38
Total Amount Awarded: $16,900,002

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount Sort descending	Status
2018	Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition	NIJ FY18 Continuations	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2016-DN-BX-0010	$35,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Developmental evaluation of a combinatorial qPCR multiplex for forensic body fluid identification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-R2-CX-0031	$49,994	Closed
2016	Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2016-DN-BX-0010	$50,000	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2017	Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2016-DN-BX-0010	$50,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2013	Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Michigan State University	MI	2013-R2-CX-K010	$122,902	Closed
2019	Development of a Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-R2-CX-0048	$146,805	Closed
2018	Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0017	$150,000	Closed
2018	Estimating the Postmortem Interval at Longer Timescales Using Bone	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2018-R2-CX-0018	$150,000	Closed
2015	Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Michigan State University	MI	2015-DN-BX-K031	$219,127	Closed
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
2008	Development of Methods for Estimating Postmortem Internal and Body relocation based on Biomarkers of Human Decomposition Ecology	NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals	American Registry of Patholgoy	MD	2008-DN-BX-K165	$270,390	Closed
2012	Human decomposition: A mosaic model for community succession and implications for future forensic research	NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Sam Houston State University	TX	2012-DN-BX-K023	$304,961	Closed
2019	Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2019-DU-BX-0010	$390,748	Closed
2020	Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-MU-MU-4042	$393,503	Closed
2023	The sexual assault microbiome: Detecting contact when minimal male DNA is present.	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04228-DNAX	$409,612	Open
2016	Forensic Body Fluid Identification Using Microbiome Signature Attribution	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2016-DN-BX-0151	$443,598	Closed
2019	Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-75-CX-0017	$443,931	Closed
2010	Development and Validation of Standard Operating Procedures for Measuring Microbial Populations for Estimating a Postmortem Interval	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications	Texas A and M Research Foundation	TX	2010-DN-BX-K243	$476,348	Closed
2018	DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2018-DU-BX-0205	$477,609	Closed
2020	Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-75-CX-0012	$530,242	Open
2017	Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Chicago	IL	2017-MU-MU-0042	$532,286	Closed
2015	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UChicago Argonne, LLC	IL	2015-DN-BX-K030	$564,735	Closed
2016	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	Non-solicited Applications	The University of Chicago	IL	2015-DN-BX-K430	$564,735	Closed