Dr. Raymond H. Jacobson Named Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review
Dr. Raymond H. Jacobson Named Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review
Updated at: June 14, 2026 at 05:30 AM
On June 11, 2026, NIH Director Dr.
Jacobson has been appointed as the new Director of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR).
Jacobson officially stepped into this leadership role on June 14, 2026.
The CSR is a vital division of the National Institutes of Health, tasked with the expert, fair, and independent evaluation of thousands of grant applications submitted every year.
As Director, Dr.
Jacobson is responsible for strengthening the peer review system to ensure that the most promising scientific research receives funding.
Jacobson is an NIH veteran, having joined the CSR in 2009.
His career is marked by steady leadership, including roles as Chief of the Biological Chemistry and Macromolecular Biophysics IRG and Director of the Division of Basic and Integrated Biological Sciences.
Before his career in review, he was an assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
