| Dr | Yifan | Wang | State Key Laboratory for Oncogenes and Related Genes, Division of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China. | others | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yigang | Chen | Wuxi No.2 People’s Hospital | Antimicrobials, Antibiotics, Antibacterials | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr. | Ying | Zhang | Department of Pediateic Respiration, Children’s Medical Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yolande Therese Rose | Proroga | IZS MEZZOGIORNO | others | Italy | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yongguo | Cao | Jilin University | Animal Infectious Diseases, Zoonosis | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Yukihiro | Hamada | Tokyo women's medical university hospital | Antimicrobial, Antibiotic, Antibacterial Stewardship | Japan | Best Research Award |
| Dr | Yulia | Desheva | Institute of Experimental Medicine (RAS) | Immunology of Infections | Russia | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr. | Yuliang | Liu | China Animal Disease Control Center | Animal Infectious Diseases, Zoonosis | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Yun | Wei | Civil Aviation University of China | Infectious Diseases Prevention, Control and Cure | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof. Dr. | Yun | Xiang | Wuhan Children's Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology | Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Childhood Infectious Diseases | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Yunfeng | Lin | Sichuan university | Antimicrobial, Antibiotic, Antibacterial Resistance | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Yuri | Voziyanov | Louisiana Tech University | others | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr. | Yusun | Zhou | The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University | Antimicrobial, Antibiotic, Antibacterial Resistance | China | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yutaka | Umemura | Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine | Sepsis, Septicaemia | Japan | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yuval | Rinkevich | helmholtz Center, Munich | others | Germany | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zachary | Silver | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine | Microbial Pathogenesis and Virulence | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zahra | Mohammad | Texas A&M University | Treatment for Infectious Diseases | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | zainab | almoosa | Almoosa specialist hospital | Treatment for Infectious Diseases | Saudi Arabia | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zakari | Bukari | University of Professional Studies Accra, Ghana | Mechanism of Resistance | Ghana | Excellence Award (Any Scientific field) |
| Prof | Zakia | Hammouch | Moulay Ismail University | Epidemiology of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases | Morocco | Best Research Award |