# 2025-20803: Third Secret Science Meeting: They Really Love Their Privacy

2025-20803, Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings, is a Federal Register notice from Health and Human Services Department, National Institutes of Health published 2025-11-25, effective 2025-12-15 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20803
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20803
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 53347
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2025-12-15
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Third Secret Science Meeting: They Really Love Their Privacy

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on December 15-16, 2025, to review important grant applications. This meeting was delayed due to a government shutdown but is now urgent to keep vital health research funding on track. Scientists and researchers waiting on NIH grants are the ones affected, with no direct cost changes but a tight timeline to keep things moving.

## Effects PRIA read

- Urgent NIH Grant Review Meeting: benefit, low. If you are a scientist or researcher waiting on NIH grant funding, the NIH Center for Scientific Review will hold a closed virtual meeting on December 15-16, 2025 to review and evaluate grant applications. The meeting was delayed by a 43-day government shutdown and is being held urgently to keep fu…

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## Sources
- [2025-20803 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20803/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-20803 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20803.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20803 (as of 2026-06-08).