The Dealmaking Landscape According To Sanofi

And Advice For Potential Partners

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Monika Vnuk, head of Sanofi’s business development, says the best candidates are still commanding very high prices and outside inflammation and immunology, the French drugmaker is on the look-out for clinical rather than very early-stage assets.

Monika Vnuk
Monica Vnuk • Source: Sanofi

The number of biotechs that are looking for partnerships while struggling for cash suggests there are plenty of reasonably priced candidates around but there are very few high-quality late-stage assets and they do not come cheap.

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