At the 105th annual meeting of the Society for Reproduction and Development, held in Tsukuba, Japan in September, the 2012 SRD awards were presented to each winner.

SRD Outstanding Research Award

The SRD Outstanding Research Award is given for outstanding basic and applied research in animal reproduction. The SRD Award Committee has selected the following members as the winners in 2012:

Seiji KATAGIRI (Laboratory of Theriogenology, Division of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University) for “Development of the Evaluation and Normalization Method of the Endometrial Epidermal Growth Factor Expression”

Hiroshi HARAYAMA (Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Division of Animal Science, Department of Bioresource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University) for “Study on Intracellular cAMP Signaling in Mammalian Spermatozoa”

SRD Innovative Technology Award

The SRD Innovative Technology Award is given for the research which contributed to a development of innovative technology in animal reproduction. The SRD Award Committee has selected the following member as the winner in 2012:

Kei IMAI (National Livestock Breeding Center) for “Improvement of Efficient In Vitro Production System in Bovine Embryos by OPU-IVF”

SRD Young Investigator Award

SRD Young Investigator Award is given for outstanding research in animal reproduction which was performed by an exceptionally promising young investigator who has not reached the age of 40 before April 1st of the year when the award is presented. The SRD Award Committee has selected the following three members as the winners in 2012:

Hiroki HIRAYAMA (Animal Biotechnology Group, Animal Research Center, Hokkaido Research Organization) for “Studies on Rapid Preimplantation Genomic Diagnosis of Bovine and Water Buffalo Embryos”

Fuko MATSUDA (Laboratory of Animal Production Science, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University) for “The Pro- and Anti-apoptotic Factors Regulate Granulosa Cell Death, a Key Phenomenon of Follicular Atresia”

Jibak LEE (Laboratory of Developmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University) for “Molecular Mechanism of Chromosome Dynamics in Mammalian Meiosis”

SRD Outstanding Presentation Award

The SRD Outstanding Presentation Award is given for outstanding oral or poster presentation at the annual fall meeting of SRD. Chair of the 105th annual meeting of SRD selected the following seven members as the winners in 2012:

• Oral Presentation
• Shinsuke SEKI (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
• Atsushi FUKUDA (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
• Sho NAKAMURA (Nagoya University)
• Suguru NITTA (Utsunomiya University)
• Poster Presentation
• Naoto KATAYAMA (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
• Mirina KOBAYASHI (Meiji University)
• Hirohisa KYOGOKU (Kobe University)