| Dr | Ambika | Verma | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Kendell | German | University of Washington | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Yanlan | Wang | Stanford | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Ms | Haydee | Dabritz | Calif Dept of Public Health, Infant Botulism Treatment & Prevention Program. | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Nabil | Alshurafa | Northwestern University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Subodh | Kumar | Texas Tech Univesrity Health Sciences Center El Paso | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Jørgen | Slots | University of Southern California | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Sophie | Paczesny | Medical Univeristy of South Carolina | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Lin | Jin | university of alabama at birmingham | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Srinivas | Ayyadevara | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and CAVHS (GRECC) | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | HANNAH | WEN | MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Weili | Miao | Stanford University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Cesare | Orlandi | University of Rochester | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Dukagjin | Blakaj | The Ohio State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | John | Carethers | UC San Diego | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Yatendra | Singh | University of Mississippi Postdoctoral research Associate | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Sunila | Pradeep | The Medical college of wisconsin | United States | Women Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Marwa | Aly | HB Fuller | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Sherin | Devaskar | UCLA | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Tanmay | Kulkarni | Mayo Clinic Florida | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |