| Prof Dr | Barbara | Sittner | Bryan College of Health Sciences/RETIRED | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Prof Dr | Lingjun | Li | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Prof | Ira | Bogotch | Florida Atlantic University | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Prof | Timothy | Gillespie | St. Ambrose University | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Joshua | Lin | BWH | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Renee | Reynolds | University at Buffalo | United States | Academic Leadership Achievement Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Jing | Zhou | University of California Santa Barbara | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Mengjia | Lau | North Carolina State University | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Prof Dr | Michael | Wong | California Northstate University College of Medicine | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Andre | Havrylyshyn | Binghamton University | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Edin | Nevzati | Denver Health and Hospital Authority | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | He Catherine | Wang | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | United States | Women Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Subrata | Sen | Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Geeta Sandeep | Nadella | University of the Cumberlands | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Assist Prof Dr | Valerie | Simmons | The University of West Florida | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Mr | Abdul-Muaizz | Koray | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Farzad | Pourghazi | Mayo Clinic | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Michael | Natarus | Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Alejandro | Meruelo | UCSD | United States | Best Researcher Award | leadershipglobalawards.com |
| Dr | Inam Ullah | Khan | Southern Methodist University | United States | Excellence in Research | leadershipglobalawards.com |