NIH Closes Doors on Translational Sciences Grant Reviews in April
Published Date: 3/18/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is holding two closed video meetings in April 2025 to review special grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets while deciding which small businesses and research projects get funding. If you’re applying for these grants, mark your calendar and get ready for some important decisions that could bring in money and support.
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Closed reviews protect trade secrets
If you applied for NCATS small business or CTSA R03 grants, your confidential trade secrets and personal information will be protected because the meetings on April 8-11, 2025 are closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6). The panels explicitly cite protection of patentable material, commercial property, and personal privacy during their review and evaluation of grant applications.
Your grant applications will be reviewed April 8-11
If you applied to the NCATS Small Business Innovation/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program or the limited competition CTSA R03, your application will be reviewed and evaluated in video-assisted meetings on April 8-9, 2025 (9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) and April 10-11, 2025 (11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.). Contact information for the scientific review officers is provided in the notice.
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