Mrs Bronwyn Grout (Pfizer UK Ltd and The School of Pharmacy, University of London) was the first recipient of the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group’s (JPAG) Conference Analytical Science Award at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) this year. The Award is a certificate and a bursary of up to £ 2,000 for the recipient to attend a scientific meeting of their choice. It was awarded on the basis of the scientific quality, originality and potential impact of the work presented at the “Short Papers in Pharmaceutical Analysis” session at the BPC. Mrs Grout’s presentation was “Use of near-infrared conformance methods for tablet in-process monitoring and quality assurance”. The picture shows Professor Tony Moffat (Chairman JPAG) presenting the award certificate to Mrs Grout .