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Proposal submission: Routing of proposal to the sponsor

Once the application is reviewed and cleared for submission by ORA/ORS, ORA/ORS will send a message indicating that the reviewed version is the version Duke expects to be submitted. This version is submitted to the sponsor via the appropriate channel by the responsible party:

Sponsor Submit via Submitted by 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) – New and competing 

Grants.Duke 

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Noncompeting RPPR module in eRA Commons Signing Official in ORA/ORS 
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research.gov (some programs have not migrated to Research.gov yet and may still require submission via FastLane) AOR in ORS/ORA 
Department of Defense (DOD) 

Grants.Duke and eBRAP 

PI 
Department of Energy (DOE) 

Grants.Duke (or if to ARPA-E and FOA instructs, submit via eXCHANGE)  

PI 
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 

Grants.Duke 

PI 
Federal Drug Administration (FDA)  

Grants.Duke 

PI 
FoundationsProposalCentral or some foundations have their own online submission system. If the foundation is on the Contact Foundation Relations First List, the appropriate foundation contact may need to be involved in the submission of the application. PI 

Audit logs from Grants.Duke will be used to identify if changes have been made to the version submitted to the sponsor. ​