| Dr | Sally | Vernon | UTHealth School of Public Health | Others | United States | Best Research Award |
| Dr | Dung | Nguyen | Stanford University | Oncology Management and Prevention | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | David | Straus | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Oncology Therapy | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Kuan-lin | Huang | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Cancer Genetics | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Nishanth | Anandanadarajah | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Cancer Genetics | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Mark | Feitelson | Temple University | Targeted Cancer Therapy | United States | Best Research Award |
| Dr | MOHAMMAD | CHISTI | Beaumont Health | Cancer Metastasis | United States | Best Research Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Effrosyni | Apostolidou | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | Oncology Therapy | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Alfred | Bothwell | University of Arizona Cancer Center | Tumour Immunology | United States | Excellence in Research |
| Ms | Thu-Lan | Luong | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | Others | United States | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Wayne | Miles | Ohio State University | Cancer Biomarkers | United States | Best Research Award |
| Dr | Zeina | Nahleh | Cleveland Clinic Florida | Oncology Therapy | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mohsen | Yaghoubi | Mercer University | Cancer Metastasis | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Xinchun | Zhou | University of Mississippi Medical Center | Cancer Biomarkers | United States | Best Innovation Award |
| Dr | Amrita | Basu | UCSF | Others | United States | Best Innovation Award |
| Dr | Lisa | Auster-Gussman | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | Oncology Management and Prevention | United States | Excellence in Research |
| Ms | Kaitlyn | Tholen | Department of Otolaryngology, University of Colorado School of Medicine | Oncology Case Reports | United States | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Tasnim | Khessib | Stanford Health Care | Oncology and Precision Medicine | United States | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Woobeen | lim | Food and Drug Administration | Others | United States | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Dania | Daye | Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School | Oncology and Precision Medicine | United States | Best Researcher Award |