# 2025-00845: Scientists Hold Secret Meetings, Won't Tell You Why

2025-00845, 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/2025-00845
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00845
- 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

Scientists Hold Secret Meetings, Won't Tell You Why

## 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 who gets funding for cool science projects. If you’re a researcher applying for grants, these dates are key for your funding chances!

## Effects PRIA read

- NIH closed grant review meetings: benefit, low. The NIH Center for Scientific Review will hold closed virtual meetings on February 6-7, 2025 and February 11-12, 2025 to review and evaluate grant applications for several study sections (Imaging Technology for Neuroscience; Academic-Industrial Partnerships; Transmission of Vector-Borne and Zoonoti…
- Confidentiality protections for grant materials: benefit, low. The meetings will be closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6) because grant discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets, commercial property (such as patentable material), or personal information. The closure is to prevent unwarranted invasions of privacy and to prote…

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## Sources
- [2025-00845 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00845/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-00845 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00845.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00845 (as of 2026-06-08).