| Mr | Seyed Mahmoud | Sajjadi Mohammadabadi | University of Nevada Reno | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Mr | Chinedu | Okere | Texas Tech University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Haytham | Elgharably | Cleveland Clinic | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Dr | Shivakumar | Raman | University of Oklahoma | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Prof | John T | McDevitt | New York University | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| Ms | Glory | Justin | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States | Best Researcher Award | inventionawards.org |
| 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 |