ISN Pioneer Awards honor the ‘unsung heroes’ of nephrology. They reward doctors on a regional level who have carried out extraordinary efforts to advance nephrology in a specific country or region. Without their dedication, nephrology would have been far behind its current state in their country and region
Find below the 2015 Pioneer Awardees:
| Region | Name | Country |
| Africa | Rashad Barsoum | Egypt |
| Middle East | Berhooz Broumand | Iran |
| North & East Asia | Shan-Yan Lin | China |
| South Asia | Adibul Hasan Rizvi | Pakistan |
| OSEA | Zaki Morad | Malaysia |
| Latin America | Jose-Carlos Pe?a | Mexico |
| Russia and CIS | Maya Ignatova | Russia |
| Central & Eastern Europe | Vytautas Kuzminskis | Lithuania |