Out to re­vive R&D, a resur­gent Sanofi pays $150M cash to part­ner up with a pi­o­neer­ing pro­tein degra­da­tion play­er

Frank Nes­tle was ap­point­ed Sanofi’s glob­al head of im­munol­o­gy and in­flam­ma­tion re­search ther­a­peu­tic area just days be­fore dupilum­ab, the block­buster-to-be IL-4 an­ti­body, would be ac­cept­ed for pri­or­i­ty re­view. Af­ter four years of con­sol­i­dat­ing im­munol­o­gy ex­per­tise from mul­ti­ple cor­ners of the Sanofi fam­i­ly and re­cruit­ing new tal­ents to build the dis­cov­ery en­gine, he’s set eyes on a Phase I-ready pro­gram that he be­lieves can grow in­to a Dupix­ent-sized fran­chise.

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