CSR’s primary role is to handle the receipt and review of all grant applications that NIH receives. NIH separates the review process from funding decisions.
For Reviewers
Reviewers are critical to our mission to see that NIH grant applications receive, fair, independent, expert, and timely scientific reviews. We appreciate the generosity with which reviewers give their time.
Study Sections
Applications are reviewed in study sections (Scientific Review Groups, SRGs). Review Branches (RBs) are clusters of study sections based on scientific discipline.
Review Meetings
Applications are reviewed in study sections (Scientific Review Groups, SRGs). Review Branches (RBs) are clusters of study sections based on scientific discipline.
Evaluation Initiatives
Access data visualizations, reports, and analytical tools to track progress.
CSR extramural support assistants (ESAs) assist scientific review officers (SROs) and work with talented scientists from across the country by helping to coordinate the reviews of NIH grant applications.ESAs help ensure the vitality of the NIH peer review by using their administrative, technical,…
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Dr. Hasan Siddiqui received his Ph.D. in cancer and cell biology from the University of Cincinnati. He completed extensive postdoctoral training at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in molecular oncology and epigenetics. Subsequently, he was a staff scientist at Nationwide…
Dr. Jennifer C. Villa received a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and conducted her thesis research on gamma-secretase regulation of notch signaling in hypoxic breast cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She received postdoctoral training…
Dr. John H. Laity received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cornell University. Dr. Laity then trained at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California specializing in biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications in structural biology. He then took a faculty position at…
Dr. Joshua Park holds an MS degree in pharmacology, microbiology, and immunology from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology from Johns Hopkins University. Thereafter, he pursued postdoctoral training at the National Institute of…
Dr. Iyer received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Mumbai, India, where she developed novel linkers for applications in combinatorial chemistry. She completed post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, where she synthesized and characterized oxidative…
Dr. Sharon Isern received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where she developed viral vectors for gene therapy applications. Dr. Isern conducted her postdoctoral work at UAB and at Tulane…
Dr. Adam Heuberger received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University, where he later served as an associate professor. At CSU, he led a transdisciplinary research program integrating molecular biology, genetics, and metabolomics to investigate food, nutrition, and health sciences. His work focused…
Dr. Jian Yang attained his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the Ohio State University, Columbus, where he studied RNA biology. After completing postdoctoral training on cholesterol metabolism in mammalian systems at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he joined the…
Ms. Sharon Sealey is Chief of CSR’s Committee Management Branch (CMB). She and her staff of committee management specialists monitor CSR’s compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act and other laws, regulations, policies and guidelines that govern the operation and management of the center’s…