Center for Scientific Review Closed Meeting Notices
Summary
The National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review announced five closed meetings scheduled for April 28-29, 2026, pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The meetings will review grant applications for topics including health services research, basic and translational cancer research, medical technology partnerships, mentored career development awards, and shared-use biomedical research equipment. All meetings will be held virtually.
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NIH announced five closed grant review meetings to occur April 28-29, 2026, covering health services research (aging/workforce optimization), basic/translational cancer research, academic-industrial medical technology partnerships, mentored career development awards, and shared-use biomedical research equipment. The meetings are closed under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4) and (c)(6) to protect confidential trade secrets, commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information of individuals associated with the applications.
These are procedural meeting notices under the Federal Advisory Committee Act and do not create new compliance obligations for external parties. Grant applicants whose applications may be reviewed should be aware their proposals will be evaluated in closed sessions. No action is required from the regulated community.
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Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
A Notice by the National Institutes of Health on 04/06/2026
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Pursuant to section 1009 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, notice is hereby given of the following meetings.
The meetings will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Topics in Health Services Research: Aging and Optimization of the Workforce.
Date: April 28-29, 2026.
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Keary A. Cope, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 209-A, Bethesda, MD 20892-7924, (301) 594-5976, copeka@nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Topics in Basic and Translational Cancer Research.
Date: April 28, 2026.
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: David G. Ransom, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Special Review Branch, Division of Extramural Activities, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 7W124, National Cancer Institute, NIH Rockville, MD 20850, (240) 276-6351, david.ransom@nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: Academic Industrial Partnerships for Translation of Medical Technologies.
Date: April 28, 2026.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Weihua Luo, MD, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5114, MSC 7854, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-435-1170, luow@csr.nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Mentored Career Development Award Applications.
Date: April 29, 2026.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Srihari Seshadri, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review—EMS Review Branch, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Dr. (RK2), Bethesda, MD 20817, (301) 594-4738, srihari.seshadri@nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; S15/R24 Shared-Use Biomedical Research Equipment.
Date: April 29, 2026.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Stephanie Nicole Hicks, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 480-5710, hickssn@mail.nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Topics in cellular and molecular mechanisms of the nervous system.
Date: April 29-30, 2026.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Ipolia R. Ramadan, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review Branch, Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827-4471, ramadanir@mail.nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortia (RDCRC).
Date: April 29, 2026. ( printed page 17288)
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Zhihong Shan, Ph.D., MD, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827-7085, zhihong.shan@nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; Member Conflict: Alcohol, Neurotoxicology and Motivated Behavior.
Date: April 29, 2026.
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Kirk Thompson, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5184, MSC 7844, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301-435-1242, kgt@mail.nih.gov.
Name of Committee: Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel; PAR Panel: Topics in HIV/AIDS: Health Interventions, Clinical Care, and Treatment.
Date: April 29, 2026.
Time: 12:31 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting.
Contact Person: Xinli Nan, MD, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Scientific Review Branch, OERA, 6707 Democracy Boulevard, Suite 800, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 594-7784, Xinli.Nan@nih.gov.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 93.337, 93.393-93.396, 93.837-93.844, 93.846-93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: April 2, 2026.
Denise M. Santeufemio,
Supervisory Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2026-06654 Filed 4-3-26; 8:45 am]
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Published Document: 2026-06654 (91 FR 17287)
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