Closed Doors Hide Diabetes Grant Decisions Again
Published Date: 3/17/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is holding several closed virtual meetings in early April 2025 to review and decide on grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets while helping decide who gets funding to support important health research. If you’re involved in these grants or small business research, these dates are key for your funding chances!
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Closed meetings protect proprietary information
The meetings are 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 proprietary details in applications reviewed in April 2025 will be kept private during the evaluation process.
NIDDK grant reviews scheduled in April 2025
If you submitted a grant application to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (including SBIR/STTR and RC2 applications), your applications will be reviewed and evaluated on these dates: April 1-2, April 8, April 9-10, and April 24-25, 2025. The notice lists specific start times for each panel and states the meetings will be virtual.
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