Dr Parastou Donyai and Kate Masters were co-recipients of two awards at the College of Mental Health Pharmacy Conference (October 13-15; Manchester, UK). The first award was presented to Dr Hesham Abduldaem who won the runner up research poster prize jointly with his supervisors. The second award was the highly commended service development poster prize which recognised the final analysis of the Janssen-Cilag funded project examining paliperidone effectiveness