Ex­pand­ing on their in­fec­tious dis­ease deal, Sanofi turns to Evotec for its drug dis­cov­ery ex­per­tise

French phar­ma gi­ant Sanofi has turned to Evotec for some help in cre­at­ing new trans­la­tion­al ef­forts out of a slate of dis­cov­ery pro­grams.

The con­tract re­search group, which has forged a se­ries of deals with bio­phar­ma part­ners, is set­ting up a new team called LAB031 for the col­lab­o­ra­tion work. The group will be re­spon­si­ble for the trans­la­tion­al work be­hind “mul­ti­ple small mol­e­cule pro­grams through the lead op­ti­miza­tion.”

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