PTT graduate student, Amarporn Wongrakpanich, received a first place award for her poster presentation in the Biological and Health Sciences section of the The 15th Annual James F. Jakobsen Graduate Conference on April 6th 2013. Her poster was entitled, "An evaluation of toxicity and inflammatory response of chitosan/pDNA polyplexes as a gene delivery system to lung". Authors on the project were: A. Wongrakpanich, W. Xie, A.A. Dodd, V.B. Joshi, K. Sorensen, P.S. Thorne, A.K. Salem