| Prof. Dr | John | Warner | Imperial College, London | United Kingdom | Biomedical Sciences | Research Excellence Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Sebastian | Ausili | University of Miami | United States | Biomedical Sciences | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Jen-Chieh | Hsueh | MediaTek | United States | Cybersecurity Research | Best Paper Award | thescientists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Craig | Comiter | Stanford University school of medicine | United States | Epidemiology Research | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Ivania | Rizo | Boston Medical Center | United States | Public Health | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Harry | Jol | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | United States | Geology and Geophysics | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Shayesteh | Jahanfar | Tufts School of Medicine | United States | Public Health | Excellence in Research Award | thescientists.net |
| Ms | Jacqueline | Miller | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | Immunology and Virology | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Farbod | Tabesh | Stanford University School of Medicine | United States | Nanotechnology Applications | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Julio | Chagas | Northwestern University | United States | Computational Chemistry | Best Scholar Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Kevin | Clark | Frontier Development Lab; NSF ACCESS; IEEE Nanotechnology and Biometrics Councils | United States | Neuroscience Research | Research Excellence Award | thescientists.net |
| Prof. Dr | Xin Shelley | Wang | MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States | Public Health | Excellence in Research | thescientists.net |
| Prof. Dr | James Shapiro | Shapiro | University of Chicagoj | United States | Genetics and Genomics | Genetics & Genomics Pioneer Award | thescientists.net |
| Dr | Kashif | Iqbal | RMIT University | Vietnam | Environmental Science | Best Researcher Award | thescientists.net |