# 2025-21020: Scientists Hold Secret Meetings About Your Tax Money

2025-21020, 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 2026-01-22 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21020
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-21020
- 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: 2026-01-22
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Scientists Hold Secret Meetings About Your Tax Money

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a closed virtual meeting on January 22, 2026, to review grant applications related to radiation therapy and nanoparticle-based treatments. These meetings protect private info and trade secrets, so only invited experts can join. This helps keep important research funding decisions safe and fair without public access.

## Effects PRIA read

- Closed NIH Small‑Business Grant Review: benefit, low. If you are a small business applying for NIH grants in radiation therapy, radiation biology, or nanoparticle‑based therapeutics, your applications will be reviewed in a closed virtual meeting on January 22, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The meeting is closed to protect confidential trade secret…

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## Sources
- [2025-21020 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21020/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-21020 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-21020.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21020 (as of 2026-06-08).