MSU alumnus, John Dolan gains inventor accolades for device that helps answer several questions that have plagued head and neck pain researchers for some time

Hoping to help relieve pain in oral-cancer patients, Bozeman native and Montana State University alumni John Dolan has invented a device that measures the effectiveness of painkilling drugs in mice.

Dolan, 39, is studying oral and craniofacial sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He took second place and won $15,000 in the Collegiate Inventors Competition this fall for his Dolognawmeter, Latin for pain and measurement of gnawing.

The Dolognawmeter helps answer several questions that have plagued head and neck pain researchers for some time, he said.

By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer

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