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-iTECH Awards.
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:
- Digital, data sciences and artificial intelligence
- Drug optimization and biologics discovery research
- Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
- Processes in Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control
- Real World Evidence development
- Precision Medicine in oncology, immunology-inflammation, rare and neurodegenerative diseases
- Cell and Gene Therapy
- Vaccines
Sanofi iDEA-iTECH Awards 2023
Recent award recipients share how winning this award and collaborating with Sanofi researchers has impacted their work.
Get ready !
Call for projects 2023 (open from November 3rd to December 16th 2022)
Our selection process
A fast process to select and start projects in less than 8 months
Week 0
Call launch
The iDEA-iTECH Awards recipients for the 2020 cycle are
Adam AMARA
TÜRING BIOSYSTEMS (Royaume-Uni)
Juan CORTES
CNRS (France)
Jozo DELIC
CEA (France)
Amandine GUERINOT
Université PSL/ESPCI (France)
Christian LUDWIGS
AIGORA (Allemagne)
Isabelle MALCUIT
ALGENTECH (France)
Philippe NGHE
Université PSL/ESPCI (France)
Franck PEREZ
Université PSL/Institut CURIE (France)
Andrey PICHUGIN
FABMID (France)
Martin RAASCH
DYNAMICS42 (Allemagne)
Fabien REYAL
Université PSL/Institut CURIE (France)
IDEA-iTECH Awards program Partners (Academic Insitutions)
France
CEA
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Université PSL
Paris Sciences & Lettres
Inserm
Germany
University of Heidelberg
University of Hamburg
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Belgium
VIB
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
IDEA-iTECH Awards program Partners (Pôles de compétitivité)
France
EurobioMed
Genopôle
Lyonbiopôle
Medicen
Switzerland
BioAlps
Germany
BioRN
Belgium
Flanders.bio
For more information
contact EMEA_iTech-Awards@sanofi.com