Sanofi in 250 million euro 'end-to-end' drug discovery deal using AI

9 May 2017

French pharma major Sanofi (Euronext: SAN) has signed a 250 million euro ($273 million) research collaboration and licence option agreement in metabolic disease with Exscientia, a UK company involved in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery.

Exscientia will apply its unique platform to identify and validate combinations of drug targets that could work synergistically and be amenable to its bispecific-small-molecule design strategy.

"Sanofi has put together an excellent experimental backbone for this collaboration and we look forward to delivering high-value projects for the company"

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