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FY2018 Forensic DNA Laboratory Efficiency Improvement & Capacity Enhancement Program: Backlog Reduction of Missing Persons' Samples

Award Information

Awardee
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH
Award #
2018-DN-BX-0198
Funding Category
Competitive Discretionary
Location

FORT WORTH, TX

Congressional District
12
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
Total funding (to date)
$2,260,781
Original Solicitation
FY 2018 Forensic DNA Laboratory Efficiency Improvement and Capacity Enhancement Program

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2018, $2,260,781)

The University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNT HSC) requests funds to aid agencies throughout the United States in the investigation of missing person and unidentified decedents. UNT HSC performs anthropological and DNA analyses on samples collected from unidentified human remains and family reference samples in missing persons’ cases in order to assist in efforts to identify previously unidentified human remains and resolve missing persons’ cases. Funding will support the salaries of the many DNA analysts, management, and an anthropologist; enable the entering of eligible profiles into CODIS; and assist agencies with entering relevant case information into NamUs.

CA/NCF

Date Created: September 21, 2018