What is it?
A booster to transform breakthrough technologies and processes developed by best-in-class academic partners and start-ups into innovative solutions to accelerate our R&D portfolio.
In 2022, the initiatives iDEA Awards (North America) and iTECH Awards (Europe) came together under the same umbrella: the Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards.
The Call for Projects is Open!
Sanofi’s iDEA-TECH Program request for Pre-proposals is open until December 12th, 2024. Please review the submission instructions and scope of the call and use the provided template when completing your application (documents available below).
About the program
- A seed funding of 120 000 euros.
- A dedicated support of a Sanofi scientific expert.
- A steppingstone to further collaboration.
Who are we looking for?
European start-ups/biotechs and academics from our selected partner institutions developing cutting-edge technologies in the following areas:
- Immunology & Inflammation, Oncology, Rare & Neurodegenerative diseases, Vaccines and Gene Therapy.
- Digital, data sciences and artificial intelligence applied to drug discovery, precision medicine and clinical development.
- Drug optimization and biologics discovery research.
- Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics.
- Translational organ on chip and 3D organoids models of human disease.
- Preclinical Safety and Digital Pathology.
- Processes in Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control.
Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards 2023
Recent award recipients share how winning this award and collaborating with Sanofi researchers has impacted their work.
iDEA-TECH Awards 2023 recipients
Matthias RAREY
Hamburg University (Germany)
Zoher GUEROUI
University PSL/ENS (France)
Andreas MEID
Heidelberg University (Germany)
Vincent BOUGET
SCIENTA LAB (France)
Vera PANCALDI
INSERM (France)
Julie BAUSSAND
MEDEXPRIM (France)
Nicolas GARCELON
CODOC (France)
Martin GUILLIAMS
VIB (Belgium)
Jerome BONNET
INSERM (France)
Colin McGUCKIN
CTI Biotech (France)
Gerburg STEIN
HOT Screen (Germany)
Jerome GALON
INSERM (France)
Hélène BLASCO
INSERM (France)
Bruno TILLIER
SYNTHELIS BIOTECH (France)
IDEA-TECH Awards program Partners
Academic Institutions
France
CEA
CNRS
Université PSL
Inserm
Institut Pasteur
Germany
University of Heidelberg
University of Hamburg
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
University College London
Belgium
VIB
Spain
Fundacio Sant Joan de Deu
IDEA-TECH Awards program Partners
Pôles de compétitivité
France
BioValley France
EurobioMed
Genopôle
Lyonbiopôle
Medicen
Switzerland
BioAlps
Germany
BioRN
Belgium
Flanders.bio
For more information
contact EMEA_iTech-Awards@sanofi.com