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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8M in Grants for Open-Source Biomedical Software Projects

May 27, 2020
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NEW YORK — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) said on Wednesday that it has awarded $3.8 million in funding to support nearly two dozen projects developing open-source software for biomedical research.

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