Please find attached and below information on the fourth year of partnership with Sanofi on the Sanofi Innovation Awards (iAwards) initiative, an exciting opportunity focused on identifying and helping to develop innovative and translational research proposals that could lead to development of effective and safer therapeutic solutions for patients. This year Sanofi anticipates to provide $125,000 research funding (including institutional indirect costs) for up to twenty five proposals among all participating institutions in the therapeutic areas of interest listed in the attachment.

Please find additional information in the attachments and note some guidelines below:

1. All submissions must be sent to the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) by 11:59pm on September 15, 2018. Please email your pre-proposal to Viviane Martin, PhD, PCI Director of Licensing, at martinv@upenn.edu. Note that the Pre-Proposal template (attached) is a fillable PDF that can be saved and sent via email.

2. Please limit the total length of your pre-proposal to a maximum of two pages (excluding publications and bio-sketch). Please also note that the pre-proposals will be treated as non-confidential information.

3.  Pre-proposals that stray from the listed areas of interest in Sanofi’s Call for Pre-Proposals will not be considered.

4.  The proposed work has to be performed at Penn. Proposals with third party collaborators other than those from partner institutions within the iAwards Program will not be considered.

5. CHOP faculty may apply through CHOP’s Sponsored Project Office by sending their proposal to stokes@email.chop.edu.

6. Unfortunately, Post-docs may not apply.

7.  If preliminary data already exists for your proposal, please include in your submission email information regarding the funding that was used to generate that data (no third party funding except NIH funding is allowed).

8. The Sanofi iAwards program will fund accepted proposals up to a total of $125,000 research funding (including institutional indirect costs) for 12 months. Depending on progress and results, Sanofi can opt to extend support into a much more significant and broadly-defined sponsored research agreement.

9.  The funding awards will be distributed among the 17 academic institutions participating in the program this year. Each institution will receive at least one funding award per year. Funding decisions are made by a joint steering committee with representatives from both Sanofi and each of the participating institutions.

Please contact Dr. Martin directly with any additional questions.