NIH Locks Doors for Secret Science Funding Powwows
Published Date: 5/20/2025
Notice
Summary
The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding several closed virtual meetings in June 2025 to review and decide on grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets while helping decide which cancer, brain, and small business health projects get funding. If you’re involved in these fields, keep an eye on these dates—they shape important research funding but don’t cost you a dime to follow!
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NIH review panels decide grant funding
The NIH Center for Scientific Review will hold virtual closed meetings on June 12-13 and June 16-17, 2025 to review and evaluate grant applications for many panels (including Oncology 1, Oncology 2, Small Business: Health Services, Neurodegeneration and Brain Injury, Cancer Therapeutics and Drug Development, Genes/Genomes and Genetics, Cancer Genetics, and Biobehavioral study sections). These reviews help determine which research and small-business health projects receive NIH funding.
Applicant confidentiality protected in reviews
The meetings will be closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6) to protect confidential trade secrets, commercial property (such as patentable material), and personal information of individuals associated with grant applications. This protects applicants’ proprietary information and personal privacy during the June 2025 review meetings.
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