| 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 |
| Dr | Bhuban | Ruidas | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | United States | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Mrs | Sonia | Mazumder | Albany Medical College | United States | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Robert Barry | Kerstein | North American Society of Digital Occlusion | United States | Innovative Research Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Dr | Susana | Gonzalez | Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas Clemente Estable | Uruguay | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Mr | An | Dai Tran | Walailak University | Vietnam | Best Researcher Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Prof. Dr | Dinh Chien | Huynh | VinUniversity | Vietnam | Outstanding Scientist Award | cellbiologist.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | منصور | ابوحاتم | جامعة عمران | Yemen | Research Excellence Award | cellbiologist.org |