MedicsNIH Streamlines Paperwork by Adding Supplement to Common Form
The real story: Lessons in Redundancy From an NIH Grant Application MedPage Today · Oct 12, 2026
Our take: A Common Form that needs a Supplement is a one-size-fits-all garment with its own alterations department. Scientists who could be doing research spend their Sundays telling the government what the government already has on file. Harmonization has never looked so redundant, or so thoroughly redundant.