2024-2025 Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards)
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. Please find a copy of the Call for Pre-Proposals and the 2024-2025 Pre-Proposal Submission Template attached. There should be NO confidential information disclosed in the pre-proposals.
Areas of Interest:
Immunology & Inflammation
Oncology – Adult & Childhood Cancers
Rare & Neurological Diseases
Genomic Medicine
Precision Medicine & Computational Biology
Vaccines
For additional information for each area, please see the PDF attachment.
Timeline:
May 20, 2024 – CE faculty PI waiver requests due (if applicable)
May 24, 2024 – Internal Pre-Proposal submission deadline to Stanford Medicine - Industry Relations (SM-IR) team
June 3, 2024 – Submission of completed Pre-Proposals to Sanofi by SM-IR
July 11, 2024 – Notification Pre-proposals chosen to be pursued - Call for Full Proposals
August 26, 2024 - Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR) deadline AND internal Full Proposal submission deadline to SM-IR
September 3, 2024 – Submission of Full Proposals to Sanofi by SM-IR
October 22, 2024 – Institutions informed of funding decisions
Stanford faculty with PI eligibility and CE faculty (with an approved CE faculty PI waiver). CE applicants must obtain an approved CE faculty PI waiver BEFORE the pre-proposal deadline.
Instructions for CE faculty PI waiver requests: Submit the required, completed CE faculty PI waiver template and attachments directly to Kathleen Thompson at klt@stanford.edu by end of day on Monday, May 20, 2024. Please do not contact your RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR regarding waivers for this program.
Fill out the attached pre-proposal template. Email the complete pre-proposal to Nour Malek at nrmalek@stanford.edu before May 24, 2024. The Industry Relations team will review the submissions with the Industry Contracting Office (ICO) and then formally submit all pre-proposals through the Sanofi portal on behalf of Stanford.
There should be NO confidential information disclosed in the pre-proposals.
Institutional representative: you do not need to submit your pre-proposals through RMG or OSR for institutional approval; you may submit your pre-proposal directly to Nour Malek per the instructions above. If invited to submit a full proposal, please initiate your Proposal Intake Form (PIF) at your earliest convenience. Final proposal submission will require institutional approval prior to submission. Any CE faculty PI waiver requests should be submitted directly to Kathleen Thompson per the instructions above.
The funds can be used for FTE, supplies, equipment, data, services, etc.
