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For Immediate Release:	July 19, 1999
Contact: Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi 956-8746, yana@hawaii.edu

UH professor wins highest award bestowed by the Society for the Study of Reproduction UH Manoa professor of anatomy and reproductive biology Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi is the 1999 winner of the Carl G. Hartman Award, the highest award bestowed by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR). During a career that spans four decades, Yanagimachi's pioneering work has led to discoveries upon which many other scientists have based their careers and from which fundamental treatments for human infertility have been derived. His extensive studies of in vitro fertilization culminated in 1998 with perhaps his most amazing achievement of all. Yanagimachi and his colleagues cloned mice from enucleated oocytes micro injected with cumulus cell nuclei. Yanagimachi has received several awards including the SSR Research Award, Serono's Recognition Award, and the Society for the Study of Fertility (SSF) Marshall Medal. In 1996, he received Japan's International Prize for Biology, and in 1998 the Distinguished Andrologist Award by the American Society of Andrology. Yanagimachi is one of several established and new investigators who will be honored at the 1999 SSR annual meeting in Pullman Washington July 31 - Aug. 3. Dr. John Eppig, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, is the winner of the SSR research award for his contributions in the area of gamete biology. The SSR Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes leadership and service to advance the discipline of reproductive biology, has been given to Dr. Koji Yoshinaga of the Reproductive Sciences Branch, NIH/NICHD.

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