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.

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

Main stepsDue date
Call for Pre-Proposals
November 7th 2023
Deadline for Pre-Proposals submission
December 15th 2023
Call for detailed proposals
January 31st 2024
Deadline for Detailed Proposals submission
March 13th 2024
JSSC meets to review Detailed Proposals
May 23rd 2024
Awardees annoncement
June 7th 2024
Start of projects
October 2024

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

Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

CNRS

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Université PSL

Paris Sciences & Lettres

Inserm

Institut Pasteur

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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