The funds will be distributed in increments over three years.
The College of Medicine will use the money to develop a coordinating center for NIH research surrounding communities with health disparities.
A Mexico City native, Terrones has been a professor at Penn State for 13 years
Cervone will serve as president for the next two years.
The lab uses a combination of human genomics, computational biology, and functional studies, using Drosophila and human cell lines, to understand the risks caused by genetic mutations and to grasp how gene disruption leads to altered neurodevelopment.
