This year's Drug Delivery to the Lungs conference (DDL21; 8-10 Dec 10; Edinburgh, Scotland), was a resounding success for Malvern Instruments with Deborah Huck, Malvern's product technical specialist for imaging, and co-authors scooping the industry poster award for, "Characterising a Nasal Spray Formulation from Droplet to API Particle Size." The prize was presented to the team by Jolyon Mitchell of Trudell Medical International and highlights Malvern's active development of analytical instrumentation for inhaled product applications.