Sanofi is taking full control of the recently approved type 1 diabetes prevention therapy Tzield by splashing out $2.9bn to acquire partner Provention.

Having led $30bn of acquisitions of companies at Sanofi, the new challenge for its former global head of partnering is to help make Owkin, “the most disruptive AI biotech company in the world,” he tells Scrip.

Just over a month after raising $97m in a series B round, Oxford University spinout MiroBio and its immune checkpoint agonists have been snapped up by Gilead Sciences. 

Sanofi's Nestle talked to Scrip about the company's early pipeline, the emerging technologies he thinks are most promising and tapping external innovation.