# 2025-21079: Fourth Secret Science Meeting Completes the Bureaucratic Bingo

2025-21079, 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 2025-12-16 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21079
- As of: 2026-06-08
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-21079
- Title: Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Health and Human Services Department; National Institutes of Health
- Citation: 90 FR 53353
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2025-12-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Fourth Secret Science Meeting Completes the Bureaucratic Bingo

## Summary

The NIH’s Center for Scientific Review is holding a secret virtual meeting on December 16-17, 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 applying for grants and public health projects are affected, with no direct cost changes but a tight timeline to meet funding deadlines.

## Effects PRIA read

- Urgent NIH grant review on tight timeline: mixed, medium. The NIH Center for Scientific Review will hold a closed virtual meeting on December 16-17, 2025 to review and evaluate grant applications for the RFA Panel EHS P30 Core Centers Program. The meeting was canceled earlier because of a 43-day government shutdown and is now being held urgently and publi…
- Grant reviews closed to protect confidential information: benefit, low. The meeting will be closed to the public under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (c)(6) because grant applications and discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets, commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information. The closed virtual format is intended to protect applicants'…

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## Sources
- [2025-21079 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21079/center-for-scientific-review-notice-of-closed-meetings)
- [2025-21079 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-21079.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21079 (as of 2026-06-08).