November 2021 Top Biopharma Deal: Sanofi – Owkin artificial intelligence and federated learning platform to advance Sanofi’s oncology pipeline

November 2021 Top Biopharma Deal Upfront

Owkin discovery and development deal with Sanofi for AI models for cancer

Announced: November 18, 2021

Total Deal Value: $270M + Mst

Upfront Cash: none

Upfront Equity: $180M

R&D Funding: $90M over 3 years

Milestones: undisclosed R&D Mst

Royalty: n/a

Cost and Profit Split: n/a

The Asset:

Owkin’s artificial intelligence and federated learning platform to support digital clinical research in Sanofi’s core oncology efforts in 4 different cancers.

Deal Structure:

R&D Only

Partnership Features:

Collaborative Development, Funded R&D

The Details:

• Owkin will receive a $180M upfront equity investment, $90M in R&D funding over 3 years, and is eligible for additional undisclosed R&D milestones.
• Sanofi will apply Owkin’s artificial intelligence (AI) and federated learning platform to advance its oncology pipeline, which includes non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), triple-negative breast cancer, mesothelioma, and multiple myeloma. This research partnership agreement will allow Sanofi to work closely with Owkin to identify new oncology treatments across 4 cancers.
• Sanofi will use the Owkin platform to find new biomarkers and therapeutic targets, build prognostic models, and predict response to treatment from multimodal patient data.
• Owkin’s global research network is powered by federated learning, which allows data scientists to securely connect to decentralized, multi-party data sets to train AI models without having to pool data. This approach will complement Sanofi’s developments oncology.

Last Month:

Congrats to Owkin and Sanofi for landing DealForma’s November 2021 Top Biopharma Deal. Last month’s Deal of the Month was Xencor – Janssen for Plamotamab and XmAb Bispecific Antibodies. Read about it here.

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