iAwards

Partnership program designed to support collaborations with academic investigators to accelerate innovative early-stage, disease-relevant research towards the clinic.

  • $150,000 in research funding for 12 months
  • Potential opportunity to convert iAwards projects to sponsored research programs
  • Areas of interest: Immunology & Inflammation, Rare & Neurological Diseases, Gene Therapy, Oncology -Adult And Childhood Cancers, Precision Medicine And Computational Biology

Application Deadline:

What Is It?

Sanofi is committed to collaborating with partners to advance cutting-edge discoveries into transformative medicines that improve patient lives. The Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards) program, created in 2015, was designed to do just that. More than 28 top academic and medical centers in North America participate in this program to advance innovations in target identification and translational science into first-in-class therapeutic solutions.

About the Program

  • Seed funding of $150.000 USD
  • Dedicated Sanofi Project Champion and resources (subject matter experts)
  • 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:

  • Immuno- and molecular-oncology
  • Immunology and inflammatory diseases 
  • Rare and neurological diseases 
  • Genomic medicine 
  • Precision medicine 
  • New therapeutic modalities