Grants of note

Before tonight's Red Sox-Yankees tilt, CVS/pharmacy will present $4.4 million from donations made in its stores to the Needham-based ALS Therapy Alliance. Scientists involved with the alliance work at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts. Three researchers are on deck for tonight's first pitch ceremony: Dr. Robert H. Brown Jr. of Mass. General, Tom Maniatis of Harvard, and Craig Mello of UMass Medical School.

Researchers at Boston Medical Center have won a five-year, $5.4 million federal grant to test a program to detect and treat drug abuse in primary care visits. The project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will compare standard screening and counseling for drug use with a more intensive model.