# 2025-15743: NIH Locks Doors on Cancer Grant Gossip Sessions

2025-15743, Center For Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, National Institutes of Health published 2025-08-19, effective 2025-10-15 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15743
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15743
- Title: Center For Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 40375
- Published: 2025-08-19
- Effective: 2025-10-15
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

NIH Locks Doors on Cancer Grant Gossip Sessions

## Summary

The Center for Scientific Review is holding several closed virtual meetings in October 2025 to review and decide on cancer research grant applications. These meetings keep sensitive info private to protect personal and commercial secrets. Researchers applying for grants and the NIH budget are affected, with no new costs or delays expected.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed NIH grant review meetings: benefit, low. If you apply for an NIH cancer research grant, the Center for Scientific Review will hold closed, virtual meetings to review applications on October 15-16, 20-21, 22-23, and 27-28, 2025. The meetings are closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6) to protect confidential trade secrets, commerci…

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## Sources
- [2025-15743 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/19/2025-15743/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-15743 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-19/pdf/2025-15743.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15743 (as of 2026-06-08).