A few months ahead of incoming CEO Paul Hudson’s start at Sanofi, the French pharma is undertaking a big data collaboration with Google that it hopes can help its R&D engine work more efficiently toward personalized medicine while also applying analytics to its commercial operation. The two companies announced their alliance centered around creating a “virtual innovation lab” on 18 June. No financial terms nor the length of the agreement were disclosed.
Details on the partnership are scant at present, but the alliance apparently is not between Sanofi and Google’s health care...