Professor Jacob George
Biography
Professor Jacob George is the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Jacob is also Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Dundee and a practising consultant physician who leads the Cardiovascular Risk Service at NHS Tayside. He is qualified in Clinical Pharmacology and General Internal Medicine and is an accredited European Hypertension Specialist.
Jacob has extensive UK and international experience and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, European Society of Cardiology and the British Hypertension Society, as well as visiting Professor at the Dnipro State Medical University, Ukraine. He is an alumnus of the Universities of Sheffield and Dundee.
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
The Chief Medical and Scientific Officer leads the MHRA’s science strategy and our scientific, research and innovation activities.