Travel Award of the American Society of Andrology
37^th ASA Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2012
Yu Xiao

Best Poster of the Session Award, AUA, Washington DC, USA, 2011
A. Paradowska, D. Miller, M. Bartkuhn, W. Weidner, K. Steger
"Co-localization of two active epigenetic histoen marks H4K12ac and H3K9ac in promoters of spermatozoal DNA from fertile and subfertlie patients"

Recipient of the Golden Badge of Honour of the European Academy of Andrology (EAA), 2011
Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Weidner

Best Poster of the Session Award, 26^th Annual EAU Congress, Vienna, 2011
U. Schagdarsurengin, C. Steilmann, M. Bergmann, S. Kliesch, W. Weidner, K. Steger
"Reduced expression of chromatin remodelling factors: a reason for round spermatid maturation arrest and idiopathic male infertility?"

Best Poster Presentation, 61.  DGU Congress, Dresden, 2009
A. Paradowska, D. Miller, M. Bartkuhn, S. Schumacher, K. Steger, W. Weidner
"Chromatin packaging in relation to histone H4K12ac binding and the promoter methylome in sperm of healthy donors"

Best Poster Presentation, Poster session 7, 24^th Annual EAU Congress, Stockholm, 2009
K. Steger
"Acetylated histone H4K12 exhibits different binding to sperm DNA between fertile men and infertile patients"

3. Posterpreis, 42. Jahrestag. Physiologie und Pathologie der Fortpflanzung, Leipzig, 2009
D. Fietz, K. Häffner, K. Hose, J. Geyer, J. Gromoll, W. Weidner, M. Bergmann
"Untersuchung eines somatischen Mosaiks auf zellulärer Ebene bei 'bunter Atrophie' der Spermatogenese"

Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee Travel Fund Grant 2009
42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, Pittsburgh, USA, 2009
Anca Nenicu

Best Poster, 42. Annual Meeting of Society for the Study Reproduct., Pittsburgh, USA, 2009
A. Nenicu, J. Okun, M. Hartmann, S. Wudy, F. Guillou, D. Crane, E. Baumgart-Vogt
"Molecular pathogenesis of male infertility due to peroxisome dysfunktion in Sertoli cells"

Young Investigator Award 2009 (2nd Prize)
5th International Workshop of Molecular Andrology, Giessen, Germany
Anca Nenicu

Best Poster Presentation, 23rd Annual EAU Congress, Milan, 2008
A. Paradowska, S. Schumacher, M. Bartkuhn, W. Weidner, K. Steger
"The interaction of acetylated histone H4 at lysine 12 (H4K12ac) with fertility relevant genes of spermazoa-towards development of new epigenetic parameters for ICSI"

2nd Poster Price, 60. DGU Congress, Stuttgart, 2008
A. Paradowska, S. Schumacher, M. Bartkuhn, W. Weidner, K. Steger
"Identifizierung der Interaktionsgene für acetylisiertes Histon H4 in Lysin 12 (H4K12ac) in Spermatozoen von fertilen Männern mittels Chip-Chip Microarray"