| Prof. Dr | xiquan | Dong | University of Arizona | United States | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Atmospheric sciences, remote sensing | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Christine | Shaw | University of Alabama Birmingham | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Social Emergency Medicine and Public Health | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Huan-You | Wang | University of California San Diego | United States | Health Professions | Pathology | Best Academic Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Toshi | Matsuda | Sensonics International | United States | Other | Psychophysics/Taste/Electrogustometry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Zhi | Wang | Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University | United States | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | economics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Guanbo | Wang | The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Biostatistics and Epidemiology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Samuel | Koeshall | MSU Bozeman | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Agronomy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Juan | de Pablo | New York University | United States | Materials Science | Active Liquid Crystals | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Willi | Tarver | The Ohio State University | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Public Health | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Igor | Strakovsky | GWU | United States | Physics and Astronomy | hadronic physics | Best Innovation Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Amandeep | Sharma | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | agronomy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Sotiri | Stathakis | Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Radiation Oncolgy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Ahmed | El-Harairy | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States | Chemical Engineering | Electrochemistry and catalysis | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Gregory | Downs | University of California, Davis | United States | Social Sciences | U.S. History | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Ata | Jameei Osgouei | Fairfield University | United States | Business, Management and Accounting | Marketing | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Seo-Eun | Choi | University of Washington | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Psychometrics, Bayesian modeling, Cognition, Dementia, neuroimaging | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Tanya | Stoyanova | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Cancer Biology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Jana | Hirschtick | Advocate Health | United States | Social Sciences | Epidemiology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Ricardo | Osorio | NYU Grossman School of Medicine | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Psychiatry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Travis | Nelson | University of Washington | United States | Dentistry | Special Care Dentistry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |