# 2025-20715: NIH Locks Up Rooms for Scientific Review Again

2025-20715, Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, National Institutes of Health published 2025-11-24, effective 2026-01-07 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20715
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20715
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 52981
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: 2026-01-07
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

NIH Locks Up Rooms for Scientific Review Again

## Summary

The Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on January 7-8, 2026, to review special grant applications that involve sensitive information. This affects researchers applying for the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award and ensures their private data stays safe. No new costs or deadlines are introduced, but the meeting keeps the grant review process secure and fair.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed Review Protects Applicant Privacy: benefit, low. If you applied for the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (PAR-22-180), your grant applications will be reviewed in a closed virtual meeting on January 07-08, 2026. The meeting is closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6) to protect confidential trade secrets, patentable material, and p…

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## Sources
- [2025-20715 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20715/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-20715 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20715.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20715 (as of 2026-06-08).