| Prof | Jabed | Iqbal | Singapore General Hospital | Singapore | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Mingming | Wu | TUM | Germany | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Emmanuelle | Jeannot | Institut Curie | France | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Akiko | Morimoto | Osaka Metropolitan University | Japan | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Maxwell | Wilder | University of Minnesota Duluth | United States | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Victoria | Akintayo | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Xuejin | Zhu | Wuxi University | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | May | MORRIS | IBMM / CNRS | France | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jian | Gao | Lishui University | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Antonio Carlos | Lottelli | Universidade Estadual Paulista- Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu | Brazil | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Yingying | WU | Institute of Edible Fungi/ Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Gilles | Pagès | University Cote d'AZUR/INSERM | France | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Lv | Zhou | Guilin University of Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Md Mahbubur | Rahman | Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden/ International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh | Sweden | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Shuang | Zhao | Chongqing University of Science & Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Ibrahim | Ali | AfricaRice | Senegal | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Rashmi | UK | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | India | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Amina | Ben Taher | UTT | France | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Hamed | Charkhian | Istanbul University | Turkey | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Paola | Rogliani | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" | Italy | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |