# 2025-00689: Government Announces Secret Science Meetings, Tells Us Nothing

2025-00689, Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective 2025-02-06 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00689
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00689
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: 2025-02-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Government Announces Secret Science Meetings, Tells Us Nothing

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding several closed virtual meetings in February 2025 to review and decide on important research grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets while helping decide which brain, lung, heart, and digestive system studies get funding. If you’re a researcher waiting on grants, these reviews shape who gets money and when.

## Effects PRIA read

- NIH grant applications reviewed in February: mixed, high. If you are a researcher with an NIH grant application, your application will be reviewed and evaluated in closed Center for Scientific Review meetings on specific dates in February 2025 (for example, Feb 6-7, Feb 11-12, Feb 13-14, and Feb 13). These reviews decide which brain, lung, heart, digestiv…
- Closed meetings to protect confidential information: benefit, low. 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, patentable material, and personal information in grant applications. That means discussions about applications and any sensitive commercial or personal details will not be discl…

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## Sources
- [2025-00689 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00689/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-00689 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00689.pdf)

## Related
- [Previous: 2025-00688, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Notice of Closed Meeting](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00688)
- [Next: 2025-00690, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00690)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00689 (as of 2026-06-08).