Big pharma,  Pfizer Foundation announced $2 million in grant funding for pilot programs to improve immunization coverage in Africa. Read the full story

Pharma news: University of Colorado faculty researchers attracted $861.04 million in research awards in the 2013-14 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures. Read the full story

The Broad Institute announced an unprecedented grant financing commitment of $650 million from philanthropist Ted Stanley. Read the full story

Big Pharma, Bayer presented New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton with a $50,000 donation to the Police Athletic League of New York City in support of its STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational programs. Read the full story

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will announce a US$248-million effort to map the body’s electrical wiring and develop such devices. Read the full story

Six Institutions get $90 million each for cancer research grant, a total of $540 million.  Read the full story

Merck Canada allocated research grants of a total C$16 million ($15.5 million) in grants to four Quebec-based university hospital centers: University of Montreal, University of Sherbrooke, Laval University, and McGill University Read the full story

The Boehringer Ingelheim and European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes entered pharma deals to fund European-wide diabetes research. Read the full story

Galapagos has been awarded a EUR2.4 million transformational medical research grant from the Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology IWT for psoriasis research and development. Read the full story

Johnson & Johnson, and GlaxoSmithKline have entered pharma deals for early grants for a new kind of anticoagulant drug they believe may prevent dangerous blood clots without causing bleeding - a previously unachievable goal. Read the full story