UNK PROFESSOR JOE DOLENCE RECEIVES $500,000 GRANT FOR PEANUT ALLERGY RESEARCH

KEARNEY, Neb., June 8 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:

By TODD GOTTULA

UNK Communications

KEARNEY - University of Nebraska at Kearney associate biology professor Joe Dolence has received a National Institutes of Health grant, becoming the first UNK faculty member to earn a Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) award.

The four-year grant provides approximately $500,000 to support research examining why males and females respond differently to peanut allergens and how those differences may influence the development of peanut allergies.

Dolence received the grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, for his project, "Androgens Pr...