| Assoc Prof Dr | Kourosh | Shoele | Florida State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Alaa | Sayed | UPMC | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Lane | Schultz | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Yi | Cui | Stanford University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Joel | Martin | George Mason University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Ms | Florence | Acha | University of Massachusetts Lowell | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Panupong | Hansrivijit | Brigham and Women's Hospital | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Riccardo | Sacco | Icahn School of Madicine at Mount Sinai Hospital New York | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Anna | Schwartz | Coleman Health LLC/Peak Performance Integrative Medicine | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Charles | Reitman | Musc Medical Center (Charleston, SC) | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Prof | João | Paraskeva | University of Strathclyde | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Amirali | Moeini | University of Houston-Downtown | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Giuseppe | Barisano | Stanford University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Sanjay | Mahadevan | Orthobiologics Research Initiative | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Manso | Sesay | Colorado School of Mines | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Joshua | Baldino | University of Connecticut Health Center | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Getachew | Ambaye | Wichita State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Pawan | Gaire | University of Nebraska Lincoln | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Vishnu Vardhan | Chakravaram | Digital Scripts Inc | United States | Best Innovator Award | inventionawards.org |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Jessica | Fleming | The Ohio State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |