iAward

Sanofi iAwards initiative is a multi-institutional partnership program designed to support collaborations with academic investigators to accelerate innovative early stage, disease-relevant research towards the clinic. With this program, Sanofi aims to fund cutting-edge translational research that can contribute to our early-stage pipeline and ultimately benefit patients.

Scope of the Call

The iAwards 2026-2027 Scope of the Call seeks innovative early state research partnerships across seven 
Therapeutic Areas to accelerate precision medicine and therapeutic development. The call emphasizes projects that can advance drug discovery and development across Sanofi's key therapeutic areas: 
 
Immunology and Inflammation
Oncology
 Neurology
Vaccines
Rare Disease
Ophthalmology
Target, Disease, and Systems Biology
 

 
In the application, applicants will select
 
1) Therapeutic Area category and
2) Secondary-category/ies
 
that best fits your application.

Scope of the Call 

We have created a downloadable guiding document that you can access here