Sanofi iAwards Europe

What Is It?

A booster to transform groundbreaking ideas in the field of target identification, disease knowledge and translational science into innovative therapeutic solutions. We partner with best-in-class academics to serve a common goal: accelerating innovation for patients.

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Call for Projects 2025-2026

Sanofi’s iAwards 2025-2026 call for projects is open from Aril 14th, 2025 to May 19th, 2025.

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?

Principal investigators from academic partner institutions developing cutting-edge therapeutic solutions in the following areas: 

  • Oncology
  • Immunology and inflammatory diseases 
  • Rare and Neurological diseases 
  • Cell and gene therapies 
  • Vaccines
  • Target, Disease and Systems Biology
Our Selection Process
Main stepsDue date
Call for Pre-proposals
14th April 2025
Deadline for pre-proposal submission
19th May 2025
Call for detailed proposals
30th June 2025
Deadline for detailed proposal submission
5th September 2025
Scientific Committee meets to review Full Proposals
16th October 2025
Awardees announcement
November 2025
Start of projects
January 2026

iAwards 2023: Ongoing Projects

Michael BADER

MDC (Germany)

Mariano BARBACID

CNIO (Spain)

Marc-Andrea BÄRTSCH

DKFZ (Germany)

Marc BITOUN

INSERM (France)

Hervé BOUTIN

INSERM (France)

Achille BROGGI

Inserm (France)

Loïc DUPRE

Inserm (France)

Stéphanie LONGET

CIRI / INSERM (France)

Annarita MICCIO & Eric ALLEMAND

Institut Imagine (France)

Jean-François PEYRON

INSERM (France)

Jessica QUINTIN

Institut Pasteur (France)

Elisabeth TRAIFFORT

INSERM (France)

Thierry WALZER

CIRI / INSERM (France)

For a complete list of past and current recipients, click here

iAward Program Partners

France

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris

AP-HP

Centre Léon Bérard

CLB

Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie

CIRI

Gustave Roussy

INSERM

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale

Institut Curie

Institut de la Vision

Institut Imagine

Institut Pasteur

Germany

Berlin Institute of Health at La Charité

BIH-Charité

German Cancer Research Center

DKFZ

Ludwig Maximilians Universität München

LMU

Max Delbrück Center

MDC

Translational Oncology

TrOn

Belgium

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

KU Leuven

Spain

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

CNIO

Fundacio Sant Joan de Deu

FSJD

Israel

Weizmann Institute

The Netherlands

The Netherlands Cancer Institute

United Kingdom

Cambridge University

Imperial College London

King’s College London

University College London

UCL

Switzerland

Université de Genève

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