The JoVE Education & Research Innovation Awards 2025 celebrate academics from all over the world who are advancing science in their own contexts by making it more visible, more reproducible, and more accessible.
Watch the live announcement of the 2025 JoVE Innovation Awards and listen to each winner describe their work.
Teaching Chemistry with a Visual 5E Framework
Educator Innovation Award
Dr Yau Hsiung Wong uses JoVE Education to make chemistry less abstract and more engaging for engineering students.
- ▪️ Built a 5E instructional framework (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) around JoVE videos in chemistry, so every lesson follows a clear, visual progression.
- ▪️ Prepares students before class with short JoVE videos and quizzes, using analytics to identify gaps and dedicate class time to discussion and interactive labs.
- ▪️ Connects classroom learning with modern teaching practices that combine video, AI, and blended learning.
Dr Wong's work serves as a model for video-based, data-informed teaching.
Scaling a Nationwide Method for Infection Surveillance
Researcher Innovation Award
Prof. Liang Wang and collaborators faced a familiar challenge in clinical research: how to make a complex diagnostic protocol repeatable across many centers.
- ▪️ Published a JoVE video article showing the “string test” for non-invasive Helicobacter pylori sampling and antibiotic resistance profiling, co-authored with Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Barry J. Marshall, whose work on H. pylori transformed gastric disease treatment from surgery to antibiotics.
- ▪️ Used this JoVE video to train staff at 52 centers in 26 provinces in China.
- ▪️ Serves as Guest Editor for the JoVE Topical Collection Molecular Diagnostics in Clinical Settings: Novel Methods and Innovative Applications, extending this work to a broader community of researchers.
In this project, video isn’t just a format, but the training tool that makes a study reproducible across the entire country.
Turning a Rural Library into a Campus Hub for Visual Learning
Librarian Innovation Award
Dr Everlyn Anduvare and her colleagues at Karatina University, a rural institution on the slopes of Mount Kenya, set out to make visual resources part of everyday teaching.
- ▪️ Led a campus-wide JoVE adoption strategy resulting in 57,000 total video views across more than 12,000 students.
- ▪️ Embedded JoVE in the LMS and library homepage, and set faculty training targets so librarians could reach staff where they work, supported by colleagues Ms Jackline Wanjiku and Ms Margaret Njeri Muiru.
- ▪️ Introduced “JoVE Awareness” as a Key Performance Indicator in the university’s performance contract, and shared her model in regional forums and as a speaker for the 2025 JoVE webinar Libraries as Hubs for Lifelong Learning.
- ▪️ Planning a JoVE visualization room so that students who lack devices or stable internet can still use video resources in an accessible physical space.
This work shows how librarians act as strategic partners in teaching and research.
Championing Visual Science In Teacher Education
Ambassador Innovation Award
Dr Elina Abaev-Schneiderman trains future science teachers at Kaye Academic College of Education in Israel, many of whom study in Hebrew as a second language.
- ▪️ Drew on her background in molecular biology and clinical lab work to rethink how future teachers learn science, focusing on clarity, visualization, and real-world scientific thinking.
- ▪️ Led the college to become the first teacher-education college in Israel to subscribe to JoVE, so students learn with clear, reliable visuals from day one.
- ▪️ Pioneered adoption among colleagues, with every science lecturer now integrating JoVE videos and quizzes into their courses.
- ▪️ Uses JoVE’s structured videos with subtitles to reduce cognitive load for multilingual students, with faculty reporting that learners arrive to class better prepared to engage.
Dr Abaev-Schneiderman’s story shows how one academic leader can use JoVE to make visual science the standard for future teachers.
Keeping Innovation Moving
Alongside the winners, this year’s finalists show how innovation is taking shape across the world. From Chile and Kazakhstan to Lithuania and the United Kingdom, they are testing new ways to teach with video, share methods, and support students and researchers in their local contexts.
Some of this work is already being highlighted beyond JoVE, including recognition for Educator finalists at Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in global and institutional news.
Together, these stories show there is no single “right way” to innovate, and JoVE is proud to support a global community using video-based science.