Cancer Cure Cash: NIH's Secret Reviews for Research Funding
Published Date: 5/29/2025
Notice
Summary
The Center for Scientific Review is holding several closed virtual meetings in late June 2025 to review and decide on cancer research grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets, so the public can’t attend. Researchers applying for grants should note these dates, as the decisions could impact funding and future cancer studies.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Grant Decisions May Affect Researchers' Funding
If you are a researcher or applicant, NIH review panels will review and evaluate grant applications on June 25–27, 2025, and those decisions could affect whether you receive funding for cancer and other studies. Applicants should note these dates because funding outcomes may be decided then.
NIH Review Meetings Closed to Public
The National Institutes of Health is holding several closed virtual review meetings on June 25–27, 2025 (times vary by panel, e.g., 8:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.). These meetings are closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), so members of the public cannot attend.
Applicant Confidentiality Is Protected
The notice states that grant applications and discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets, patentable material, and personal information, so the meetings are closed to protect that information. The closure is justified under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6).
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