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Grants of note

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Management Sciences for Health, a private non-profit based in Cambridge, has received a three-year, $2.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build programs in East Africa to improve access to medicines.

Fenway Community Health has won a $1.75 million challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help it build a new health and research center. Fenway, which specializes in the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, must raise $6 million toward its goal of $18 million by July 2009 to receive the Kresge grant, which would be the largest in the health center's history.

Northeastern University professor Mansoor Amiji has been awarded a four-year, $1.34 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease by using gene therapy that could be given orally.

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