New Research and Development Awards, 2006

In response to the fiscal year 2006 Forensic DNA Research and Development solicitation, the National Institute of Justice has made the following awards:


Isolation of Highly-Specific Protein Markers for the Identification of Biological Stains: Adapting Comparative Proteomics to Forensics
University of Denver
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K001
 
Separation of Sperm and Epithelial Cells in a Microfluidic Device: An Automated Method for High Efficiency, High Purity Separations
University of Virginia
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K021
 
Laser Microdissection as a Technique to Isolate Sperm Cells and Improve the Analysis of Touch Evidence
The Bode Technology Group, Inc.
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K032
 
An Investigation of the Effect of DNA Degradation and Inhibition on PCR Amplification of Single Source and Mixed Forensic Samples
Florida International University
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K006
 
Double Strand Break Repair of Highly Degraded DNA
University of Central Florida
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K005
 
Repair of Damaged DNA for Forensic Analysis
GE Global Research
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K018
 
Mitochondrial DNA Mixture Separation Development and Validation by Denaturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography
University of Denver (Graduate Research Fellowship award)
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K002
 
Analysis of DNA Forensic Markers Using High Throughput Mass Spectrometry
Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K011
 
DNA Quantitation, STR Microvariant, Allele Sequencing, STRBase Updates, SNP and STR Multiplexing
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Award Number: 2003-IJ-R-029
 
Application of Proteinases for DNA Isolation of Bone Specimens
Indiana University
Award Number: 2006-DN-BX-K010