Sanofi iDEA-TECH Awards - Europe

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.

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-TECH 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-TECH 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-TECH 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-TECH Awards program Partners (Pôles de compétitivité)

France

EurobioMed

Genopôle

Lyonbiopôle

Medicen

Switzerland

BioAlps

Germany

BioRN

Belgium

Flanders.bio

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