| Dr | Thabakgolo | Letsau | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa | Young Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Sabine | Brandt | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna | Austria | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | MD Wasim | Bari | University of Yamanashi | Japan | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Jean Sire Armand | Eyebe Fouda | University of Yaoundé I | Cameroon | 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 |
| Ms | Amina | Ben Taher | UTT | France | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Mukhtar | Sofi | VIT Vellore | India | Proteomics Research Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Suresh Kumar | Balasubramanian | Wayne State University/ Karmanos Cancer Institute | United States | Innovative Research Award | View Profile |
| Dr | BERENIKA | SZCZĘŚNIAK-SIĘGA | Wroclaw Medical University | Poland | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Xuejin | Zhu | Wuxi University | China | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Weiling | He | Xiamen University | China | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Yunde | Zhang | 江南大学 | China | Excellence in Research Award | View Profile |