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Top 13 Biotech research institutions based in Portugal
RevenueBase identified 43 biotech research institutions headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026 and tracks 2,417 professional contacts across them, including 288 with verified work emails. Porto is the largest hub.
This list covers biotech research institutions headquartered in Portugal, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 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.
The 13 largest biotech research institutions based in Portugal
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier ITQB NOVA is an interdisciplinary research and advanced training institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “iBET is a private non-profit research institution specialized in biotechnology research and bioprocess development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) is a non-profit organization located on the Gambelas campus of the University of Algarve and dedicated to R&D in the Marine Sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) is an institute dedicated to biological and biomedical research and innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The UNINOVA Institute is a multidisciplinary, independent, and non-profit research institute employing around 150 persons, located in the metropolitan area of Lisbon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa é uma instituição de referência a nível de ensino superior universitário e investigação em Biotecnologia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “INESC is a private, non-profit research institution founded in Portugal in 1980 with a conviction: that scientific excellence and real-world economic impact are not competing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Centro Académico de Investigação e Formação Biomédica do Algarve, adiante designado ABC (Algarve Biomedical Center), tem como principal missão criar, transmitir e difundir uma…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-alimentar do Alentejo (CEBAL) is a private, non-profit research and development unit located in Beja.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to be “your easy genetics laboratory”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology (NIMSB) is a partnership between NOVA University Lisbon and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (Berlin, Germany) supported…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O CITAB - Centro de Investigação e Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas é uma Unidade de I&D composta por uma equipa de 254 investigadores e bolseiros com expertise em várias…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: biotech research institutions. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names biotech research institutions.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of biotech research institutions, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name biotech research institutions. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Biotech research institutions based in Portugal at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Portugal, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Portugal, over 43 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 biotech research institutions, 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 Portugal whose own description of what they do matches “biotech research institutions”. 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 biotech research institutions), 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 biotech research institutions, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Portugal 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, 288 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 16, 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
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its 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 the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names biotech research institutions, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many biotech research institutions are there based in Portugal?
RevenueBase identified 43 biotech research institutions headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Itqb Nova, headquartered in Oeiras, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most biotech research institutions?
Porto leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Coimbra (5) and Lisboa (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 288 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 43 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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