| Dr | Justine Kipruto | Kitony | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | United States | Excellence in Research | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof | Charles | Wang | Loma Linda University Center for Genomics | United States | | |
| Dr | Wei | Ying | University of California, San Diego | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Sirish Kumar | Palle | Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Suchit | Sarin | University of Nebraska Lincoln | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Ms | Slesha | Tuladhar | Paramount Planet Product | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Qi | Gao | Stanford University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Alexander | Tsankov | Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Paola | Leone | Rowan-Virtua SOM and Virtua Health College of Medicine and Life Sciences of Rowan University | United States | Pioneer Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Ann-Kathrin | Eisfeld | The Ohio State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Kelly | Bosak | University of Kansas Medical Center | United States | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| 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 |
| Dr | Lisa | DeLouise | University Rochester | United States | | |
| 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 |