# 2025-21008: Fourth Copy-Paste Notice About More Secret Science Meetings

2025-21008, 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 2025-12-11 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21008
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-21008
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 53349
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2025-12-11
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Fourth Copy-Paste Notice About More Secret Science Meetings

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a secret virtual meeting on December 11, 2025, to review important grant applications. This meeting was delayed by 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 changes to money but a tight timeline to catch up.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed NIH Grant Review Meeting: benefit, medium. If you have a biomedical research grant application to the NIH, the Center for Scientific Review will hold a closed virtual meeting on December 11, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. to review and evaluate grant applications. The meeting will be closed to the public because discussions could disclos…
- 43-Day Shutdown Caused Scheduling Catch-Up: mixed, medium. The December 11, 2025 meeting was canceled earlier because of a 43-day government shutdown and is being held urgently to catch up. The notice was published less than 15 days before the meeting so evaluations of biomedical research applications can be submitted to national advisory councils for time…

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## Sources
- [2025-21008 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21008/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-21008 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-21008.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21008 (as of 2026-06-08).