NIEHS Holds Secret Meeting on Health Grants
Published Date: 4/14/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is holding a closed virtual meeting on May 8, 2025, to review special grant applications for quick-turnaround environmental health research. This meeting affects researchers seeking funding and keeps sensitive info private. No money changes are announced, but the grant review could speed up important health studies.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Closed review of time-sensitive R21 grants
Researchers who applied to the NIEHS 'Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities (R21)' will have their grant applications reviewed and evaluated in a closed virtual meeting on May 8, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The panel’s review is part of deciding which time-sensitive environmental health research proposals move forward.
Protection of confidential applicant information
The meeting will be closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (c)(6) because grant applications and discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets, patentable material, or personal information. The closed format is intended to keep applicants' commercially sensitive and private information from public disclosure.
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