| Dr | Evgeny | Deforzh | Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Willa | Hsueh | The Ohio State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Georgios | Karras | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Quanjun | Cui | University of Virginia | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Weiping | Qin | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/James J. Peters VAMC | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Erna | van Niekerk | University of California San Diego | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Waldemar | Debinski | Wake Forest School of Medicine | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Aakanksha | Jain | University of Washington | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Stefan | Oliver | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Santosh | Kumar | Georgetown University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Insoon | Chang | UCLA School of Dentistry | United States | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | YU SHIN | KIM | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Mena | Boules | Ironwood Pharmaceuticals | United States | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Robert | Crawford | biomodal | United Kingdom | Epigenetics in Cell Biology Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Andrew | Moran | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | SWATI | SHARMA | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Amirhosein | Kefayat | Edinburgh of University | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Luminita | Paraoan | Manchester Metropolitan University | United Kingdom | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Kimberly | Gilmour | Great Ormond Street Hospital | United Kingdom | Women Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Sakarie Mustafe | Hidig | Zhejiang University School of Medicine | United Kingdom | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |