# 2025-20626: Secret NIH Session Reviews Biomedical Grants This December

2025-20626, Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, National Institutes of Health published 2025-11-21, effective 2025-12-16 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20626
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20626
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 52685
- Published: 2025-11-21
- Effective: 2025-12-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Secret NIH Session Reviews Biomedical Grants This December

## Summary

The Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on December 16, 2025, to review important grant applications for biomedical research. These meetings are private to protect secret ideas and personal info. Scientists and research groups applying for grants will be affected, but no new costs or deadlines are introduced.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed Review Protects Applicants' Secrets: benefit, low. Scientists and research groups applying for NIH grants will have their confidential trade secrets, patentable material, and personal information protected because the Center for Scientific Review meeting on December 16, 2025, is closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6).
- No New Costs or Deadlines Introduced: benefit, low. The notice states that the closed review affects scientists and research groups applying for grants but explicitly says no new costs or deadlines are introduced, so applicants will not face added financial charges or new filing deadlines from this meeting.

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## Sources
- [2025-20626 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/21/2025-20626/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-20626 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-21/pdf/2025-20626.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20626 (as of 2026-06-08).