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.
Call for Projects
Sanofi's iDEA-TECH 2023 call for projects is closed. The next call for projects is scheduled for November 2024.
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
- Preclinical Safety
Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards 2023
Recent award recipients share how winning this award and collaborating with Sanofi researchers has impacted their work.
Our selection process
A fast process to select and start projects in less than 8 months
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
Belgium
VIB
IDEA-TECH 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