Penn Medicine Co-Leads $12 M NIH Grant to Study Genetics of Mental Illnesses in Deletion Syndrome Patients
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
A major international consortium co-led by Penn Medicine has received a $12 million National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) grant for a large-scale genetics study investigating why patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome have an increased risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.