| Assoc Prof Dr | mark | osborn | university of minnesota | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Maria | De Jesus | School of International Service, American University | Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Infections | United States | Best Research Award | |
| Prof | Michael | Bukrinsky | GWU SMHS | Immunology of Infections | United States | Outstanding Scientist Award | |
| Prof Dr | Ruxana | Sadikot | Ruxana T Sadikot, MD, MRCP(UK), Professor of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Fuqing | Wu | University of Texas Health Science Center | Epidemiology of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases | United States | Best Research Award | |
| Dr | Konstantinos | Economopoulos | Duke University Medical Center | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Maximo A. | Benavides | Bio Medical Science World Corp. | Vaccines and Vaccination | United States | Best Research Award | |
| Prof | Deming | Sun | University of California, Los Angeles | Immunology of Infections | United States | Best Research Award | |
| Dr | Stephen | Hsu | Augusta University | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | United States | Best Research Award | |
| Dr | Yawei Jenny | Yang | Weill Cornell Medical Center | Immunology of Infections | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof. Dr. | Akshay | Rao | University of Minnesota | Infectious Diseases Vaccines | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Yuri | Voziyanov | Louisiana Tech University | others | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Wei | Jiang | Medical University of South Carolina | Immunology of Infections | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Taqi | Raza | University of Tennessee Knoxville | others | United States | Excellence Award (Any Scientific field) | |
| Dr | Lin | Jiang | University of California, Los Angeles | Neuro Infectious Diseases | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Robert | Hahn | Department of Anthropology, Emory University | others | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr. | OLAYEMI HAFEEZ | RUFAI | University of San Francisco | Vaccines and Vaccination | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Carol Anne | Celona | New York Presbyterian/Columbia | Epidemiology of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist. Prof. Dr. | Hongwan | Li | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | United States | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr. | Joaquin | Mould-Quevedo | CSL Seqirus Inc. | Infectious Diseases Vaccines | United States | Best Researcher Award | |