Secret Disease Meeting Announced With Maximum Transparency: None
Published Date: 1/15/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is holding a closed meeting on February 12, 2025, to review important grant applications for clinical trials. This meeting affects researchers seeking funding for allergy and infectious disease studies and keeps sensitive information private. The decisions made could impact future research funding and medical breakthroughs.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
NIAID clinical trial grant review
If you are a researcher applying for clinical-trial grants, NIAID will review and evaluate those applications on February 12, 2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The panel will consider Investigator-Initiated Extended Clinical Trial (R01, Clinical Trial Required) and NIAID Clinical Trial Implementation Cooperative Agreement (U01, Clinical Trial Required) applications, which can affect who receives research funding.
Meeting closed to protect confidentiality
The meeting on February 12, 2025 will be closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6). The closure is to protect confidential trade secrets or commercial property (such as patentable material) and personal information about people associated with the grant applications.
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