# 2025-20965: Scientists Really Love Their Secret Grant Review Meetings

2025-20965, 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 2025-12-18 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20965
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20965
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 53352
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2025-12-18
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Scientists Really Love Their Secret Grant Review Meetings

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on December 18-19, 2025, to review brain disorder research grant applications. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets, so only reviewers join in. Scientists applying for grants should note this important step in the funding process, but no money changes hands during the meeting itself.

## Effects PRIA read

No economic effects identified for this document.

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## Sources
- [2025-20965 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20965/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-20965 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20965.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20965 (as of 2026-06-08).