Small Biz Cancer Fighters Await Private Funding Verdicts
Published Date: 3/17/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Cancer Institute is holding private virtual meetings in April 2025 to review and decide on grant applications for small business research funding. These closed sessions protect sensitive info like trade secrets and personal details. If you’re applying for these grants, expect decisions soon that could impact funding and research timelines.
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Multiple SBIR/STTR Review Meetings Scheduled
The National Cancer Institute will hold multiple virtual meetings to review and evaluate SBIR/STTR grant applications on these dates: April 3-4, April 15-16, April 16, April 17 (two panels), April 22 (three panels), April 24, May 1, and May 6, 2025. If you applied for an NCI SBIR/STTR grant, your application will be considered at one of these closed virtual review sessions at the Shady Grove address listed in the notice.
Career-Development and Training Grants Reviewed
The notice schedules a virtual meeting on May 21, 2025 to review the NCI Transition Career Development Award (K22) and Institutional Research (T32) and Education (R25) grant applications. Researchers, trainees, and institutions with those applications should expect evaluation at that meeting date.
Meetings Closed to Protect Confidential Information
All listed meetings will be closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6) because discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets, commercial property (such as patentable material), or personal information. Applicants and proposers can expect their trade secrets and personal data discussed in these panels to be handled in closed sessions.
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