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Top 25 Biopharmaceutical companies based in Chicago, United States

The Chicago biopharmaceutical companies directory lists 49 companies developing and commercializing medicines based on biological products. It includes 4,601 business contacts and 3,345 email addresses for organizations in the category, with San Diego as the single most-represented city among the companies on the list. The directory was updated in September 2026.

Biopharmaceutical companies discover, develop, manufacture, or commercialize medicines made from biological sources, including proteins, antibodies, vaccines, and cell or gene therapies. This list covers companies whose primary business includes the research, development, manufacturing, or commercialization of biopharmaceutical products. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 6, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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49Companies
4,601Contacts tracked
3,345Verified emails
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The 25 largest biopharmaceutical companies based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 49 biopharmaceutical companies based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to biopharmaceutical companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0003,149 contacts →

“EVERSANA® is a leading independent provider of global services to the life sciences industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500481 contacts →

“We're a growth-oriented biopharmaceutical company improving patient lives by developing and commercializing advanced products across a range of therapies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200189 contacts →

“Founded in 2003, CG Life is a specialized pharma agency built for the unique challenges of bringing therapies for rare and hard-to-treat diseases to market, where traditional…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200131 contacts →

“Founded in 2017 and based in Chicago, Meitheal is focused on the development and commercialization of generic injectable medications and, as of 2022, has expanded its focus to…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200110 contacts →

“Leading North American Specialty Pharmaceutical Company focused on hematology, rheumatology, auto-immune disease, specialty oncology and pediatrics.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,00096 contacts →

“As a trusted partner for thousands of labs and biotech/pharma companies across the globe, VectorBuilder offers a full spectrum of gene delivery solutions covering virtually all…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50071 contacts →

“EVERSANA CONSULTING delivers global consulting services to address challenges across the product lifecycle in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20051 contacts →

“Evozyne designs novel protein therapeutics to solve previously unaddressable patient needs.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20049 contacts →

“At Apollo Care, we believe that access and analytics are the cornerstone of a commercial strategy that enables faster growth, gross-to-net optimization, and improved patient…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5041 contacts →

“AltaThera is a pharmaceutical company using innovative science to improve patient care.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5025 contacts →

“Paragon is a global life science leader that creates, builds and funds innovative biology-based companies, accelerating scientific breakthroughs to solve some of society's most…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5023 contacts →

“Established in 2020, Xentria works across biopharmaceutics communities creating innovative and authentic collaborations and partnerships that advance challenging drug development.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1022 contacts →

“MAIA Biotechnology is a targeted therapy, immune-oncology company, focused on development and commercialization of first-in-class drugs with novel mechanisms of action that are…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1021 contacts →

“Grove Biopharma Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Strong evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5019 contacts →

“WCG KMR Group is a global leader in the provision and analysis of benchmarking and other data for the biopharmaceutical industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-108 contacts →

“BiopharmIQ provides data and services to help sales/BD teams and investors.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-107 contacts →

“The Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization (iBIO) is a life sciences industry association of more than 500 members comprised of life sciences companies, universities…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-506 contacts →

“Offering comprehensive, plug-and-play commercial products and solutions for today's top pharmaceutical management teams.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-506 contacts →

“INNOVATIVE BIOTECH AND PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS FOR DEMANDING CLIENTS.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“Opera Bioscience enables Biotech partners to produce high purity proteins and antibodies for therapeutic use, while also minimizing development and manufacturing timelines.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“Zylem Biosciences is a preclinical biotechnology startup, pioneering the development of targeted medicines by employing rational design inspired by nature.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“Improving human lives every day through life sciences product innovation and services.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“Like many industries, the supply chain in bioprocessing is becoming dominated by a handful of mega-suppliers.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-503 contacts →

“Sword Bio is a bioanalytical CRO committed to delivering projects with the best-in-class quality, science, service, and speed.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-103 contacts →

“Amphix Bio is a preclinical stage company developing a new platform technology, Supramolecular Therapeutic Peptides (STPs), that modifies immunological response and initiates…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Biopharmaceutical companies based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
72.7%Verified-email coverage
93.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
398.0%Largest-city concentration · San Diego
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
25
11-50
11
51-200
8
201-500
2
501-1,000
1
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 49 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among biopharmaceutical companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “biopharmaceutical companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names biopharmaceutical companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among biopharmaceutical companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,345 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Frequently asked

How many biopharmaceutical companies are in the directory?

The directory contains 49 biopharmaceutical companies based in Chicago, United States.

Where are most of the biopharmaceutical companies located?

San Diego is the single most-represented city among the biopharmaceutical companies on the list.

What contact data is available for biopharmaceutical companies?

The directory includes 4,601 business contacts and 3,345 email addresses for the listed biopharmaceutical companies.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.