Boost Your Lab's DNA Analysis Speed: Get Funding!
Posted: March 30, 2010
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Summary
State and local government forensic labs can get funding to integrate cutting-edge technologies from fields like genetics and biotechnology. This grant helps improve the speed and capacity of your DNA analysis processes.
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Full Description
The goal of NIJ’s Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program is to identify and facilitate implementation of novel technologies resulting from ongoing research and development projects in the field of forensic DNA, as well as in other fields such as molecular biology, genetics, and biotechnology that may improve the capacity and/or efficiency of forensic DNA laboratories. Specifically, this program is designed to fund the incorporation of such novel technologies, through validation studies, into State and local government forensic laboratories that are currently performing DNA analysis. Priority consideration will be given to proposals that focus on technologies developed as a result of NIJ’s Forensic DNA Research and Development Program. Additionally, technologies intended to improve the efficiency of analyzing DNA samples will be given priority consideration over those that improve the identification, collection, and/or preservation of biological evidence/samples.
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