Grant Funding for Crime Laboratories and Researchers
Congress has appropriated funding to meet the goals of the President's DNA Initiative. The funds are made available periodically through solicitations from the Initiative's Partners and announced on this page.
Select a program to the left under Grant Funding to learn more about programs to reduce the convicted offender and forensic evidence backlogs, solve cold cases using DNA, develop and implement training and perform research and development.
- Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program (PDF), released 03/31/2008
Due Date:May 15, 2008, 11:59 p.m. eastern time
- Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Funding (PDF), released 04/22/2008
Due Date: May 30, 2008, 11:59 p.m. eastern time
Lists of Awards
Select a program below to view lists of awards made by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the President's DNA Initiative.
- Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Funding
Note: In 2007, NIJ combined the Forensic DNA Capacity Enhancement and Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction programs into the Forensic DNA Backlog Redcuction Program. - Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program (In-House Analysis and Review)
- DNA Research and Development (from NIJ Web site), 2006 | 2005 | 2004
- Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program, 2007
- Solving Cold Cases with DNA Evidence, 2005 and 2007
- DNA Missing Persons (from NIJ Web site), 2005 | 2004
