On September 18th 2015, Ms. Ayumi Hasegawa, Technical Staff II in the Bioresource Engineering Division , has won the Journal of Reproduction and Development (JRD) Outstanding Paper Award for her paper " Microdroplet In Vitro Fertilization Can Reduce the Number of Spermatozoa Necessary for Fertilizing Oocytes ". The award is given to the authors of the papers that showed the most outstanding research outcomes during the volume year. It is given to three or four people every year.