# 2025-20801: NIH Scientists Meet in Secret, Won't Tell You Why

2025-20801, Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meeting, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, National Institutes of Health published 2025-11-25, effective 2025-12-04 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20801
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20801
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meeting
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 53370
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2025-12-04
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

NIH Scientists Meet in Secret, Won't Tell You Why

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on December 4, 2025, to review important grant applications focused on diversity in research. This meeting was delayed by a government shutdown but is now urgent to keep funding biomedical research on track. Scientists applying for grants and public health projects depending on this money are the ones affected.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed NIH Grant Review on Dec 4, 2025: benefit, medium. The NIH Center for Scientific Review will hold a closed virtual meeting on December 4, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. to review and evaluate PAR-23-122 (ReWARD) R01 grant applications. The meeting was delayed by a 43-day government shutdown and is being held urgently so evaluations can be sent t…

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## Sources
- [2025-20801 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20801/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meeting)
- [2025-20801 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20801.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20801 (as of 2026-06-08).