The Main Board of the Polish Genetics Society recognized the team headed by Prof. Maciej Kurpisz (M. Kurpisz, Marta Olszewska, Ewa Wiland) with an award for the round of publications entitled Genetic background of male infertility – comprehensive studies of the genetic material of sperm and gametogenic cells in carriers of chromosome aberrations, during the 5th Polish Congress of Genetics which took place in Łódź on 19-22 September 2016.