| Dr | Saleheh | Jahani | UCSD | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Stem Cell, Cancer, microRNA | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mrs | Lauren | Loop | Allergy & Asthma Medical Group and Research Center/UCSD | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Allergy and Immunology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Mathew | Aibinu | University of Iowa | United States | Mathematics | Applied Mathematics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Srinivasan | Jayakumar | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States | Chemistry | Organic and Medicinal chemistry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Tahir Cetin | Akinci | University of California Riverside | United States | Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Yubo | ZHANG | AGIS | United States | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Genomics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Benjamin | Gerstner | Penn State University | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Plant soil feedback, plant polyploidy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Diane | Ghanem | The Johns Hopkins Hospital | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Orthopaedic Surgery | Women Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Aleksandar | Goranov | Old Dominion University | United States | Environmental Science | Analytical environmental chemistry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Aleksandar | Goranov | Old Dominion University | United States | Environmental Science | Analytical Environmental Chemistry | Young Scientist Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Hadi | Heydarizadeh Shali | The University of Memphis | United States | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Geodesy and Geophysics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Emily | Bonner | Oregon State University | United States | Environmental Science | Environmental chemistry/ toxicology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Nima | Khodadadi | university of Miami | United States | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Young Scientist Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Dhurjhoti | Saha | MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Epigenetics/Chromatin remodeler | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | A. Lenore | Ackerman | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Urogynecology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Shrishti | Singh | George Mason University | United States | Engineering | Biomedical Engineering | Women Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Divya | Kumar | McLean Hospital | United States | Psychology | Clinical | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Zeinab | Ramezani | University of Miami | United States | Engineering | Semiconductor Devices and Physics, Biosensor | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Khaldoon | Dhou | Texas A&M University Central Texas | United States | Computer Science | agent-based modeling, virtual humans, image processing, visual analytics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Ellen-ge | Denton | University of Rochester Medical Center | United States | Psychology | Youth Suicide Prevention | Best Faculty Award | View Profile |