NIH Closes Virtual Doors for Secret Grant Decisions in June
Published Date: 4/28/2025
Notice
Summary
The Center for Scientific Review is holding several closed virtual meetings in late June 2025 to review and decide on important grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets while helping decide which scientific projects get funding. Researchers and small businesses in health and tech fields should watch for these decisions, which could impact future funding and innovation.
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NIH panels to review grant applications
If you are a researcher or a small business with a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application in the listed areas, those applications will be reviewed and evaluated in closed virtual meetings on June 24–25 and June 26–27, 2025 (meetings run roughly 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.). One named panel is explicitly a Small Business: Cardiovascular and Surgical Devices special emphasis panel.
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