Digital and Data Science

Our data science community spans every therapeutic area at Sanofi. Working with our colleagues and partners from bench to boardroom, we’re building scalable platforms to help shorten the diagnostic journey and improve both public health and the standard of care for diseases. Our R&D focus is on specialty care including cancer, inflammatory conditions, rare blood disorders, rare diseases, vaccines and neurological disorders.

Machine learning to enable data-driven drug and vaccine discovery

We’re developing, extending, and using state-of-the-art machine learning and AI methods so we can make the best use of data in all stages of drug and vaccine discovery. We’re leveraging:

• deep neural networks and other supervised and unsupervised technologies for target identification,
• active learning for drug and molecule design, and
• graphical models for integrating clinical and molecular data to improve clinical trials.

Taken together, these approaches are transforming the drug discovery and testing process, making it more efficient, faster, and more accurate. That’s how we can best support the patients we serve.

Clinical trials and real-world evidence (RWE)

Our R&D teams are collaborating across disciplines to discover and validate digital biomarkers of disease. We use AI, bioinformatics, and other methods to find meaningful patterns in complex, multi-dimensional datasets, for example combining data from smart devices (e.g. internet-enabled spirometers), wearables, and “invisibles” used in decentralized clinical trials with electronic health records, genomics, proteomics, and real-time environmental measures.

Open science and collaboration

Open science and collaboration are helping us bring new solutions to patients more quickly. In Open Targets, for example, we’re working with academic and other industry partners to systematically improve the identification and prioritization of drug targets. Our partnerships with innovative small- and medium-sized enterprises extend our capacity to identify targets, build robust disease models based on large datasets while preserving privacy, and mine rich RWE datasets to gain new insights into biological mechanisms that drive specific diseases.