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Top 25 Cancer drug developers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,370 cancer drug developers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 210,066 professional contacts across them, including 68,223 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and San Diego the largest hub.
This list covers cancer drug developers worldwide, 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for cancer drug developers follow the table.
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 25 largest cancer drug developers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33,433 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 26,637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we innovate with purpose, to lead where medicine is going.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 17,217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Genentech We're passionate about finding solutions for people facing the world's most difficult-to-treat conditions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 13,864 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Gilead, we set – and achieve – bold ambitions to create a healthier world for all people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 10,389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, Biogen is a leading biotechnology company that pioneers innovative science to deliver new medicines to transform patients’ lives and to create value for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 6,208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Life is a beautiful gift and health is what allows us to enjoy it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,973 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Daiichi Sankyo, we create essential medicine for longer, better lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,570 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Eisai Inc, human health care (hhc) is our goal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Effective March 17, 2025, The U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,098 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We have merged with Bristol Myers Squibb creating a leading biopharma company, ideally positioned to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines for patients fighting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,580 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Novartis, our mission is to discover new ways to improve and extend people's lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,578 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We aspire to create, improve and prolong life for people living with difficult-to-treat conditions like infertility, multiple sclerosis and cancer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,491 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daiichi Sankyo is an innovative global healthcare company contributing to the sustainable development of society that discovers, develops, and delivers new standards of care to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,426 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Every Exelixis employee is united in an ambitious cause: to transform science into new treatments that give cancer patients and their families hope for the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,054 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 879 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Revolutionaries – passionate in our singular pursuit of discovering, developing and delivering innovative, targeted medicines for patients living with cancer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 868 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) is one of the world’s leading oncology research organizations, conducting community-based clinical trials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 857 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seagen is now part of Pfizer!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 816 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Following the merger of long-time partners, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to form Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, this page will no longer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 677 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Menarini Group ("Menarini"), a leading Italian pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, and Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.("Stemline"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Menarini…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 666 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Under the leadership of Josep Tabernero, the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) has established itself as a cancer research center of proven excellence internationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage, Nasdaq listed (ticker ARWR) company developing medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing the genes that cause them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 644 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop, and commercialize innovative medicines to help more patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dendreon is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and pioneer in the development of immunotherapy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 632 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arcus Biosciences is a rapidly growing, clinical-stage, global biopharmaceutical company developing differentiated molecules and combination medicines that may have the potential…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: cancer drug developers. 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 cancer drug developers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cancer drug developers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cancer drug developers. 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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Cancer drug developers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 cancer drug developers, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for cancer drug developers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “cancer drug developers”. 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 cancer drug developers), 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 cancer drug developers, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 68,223 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 19, 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.
Cancer drug developers by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Cancer drug developers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Cancer drug developers based in the United States879
- Cancer drug developers based in China120
- Cancer drug developers based in India115
- Cancer drug developers based in the United Kingdom107
- Cancer drug developers based in France89
- Cancer drug developers based in Canada60
- Cancer drug developers based in Germany57
- Cancer drug developers based in Switzerland46
- Cancer drug developers based in Spain45
- Cancer drug developers based in Italy42
- Cancer drug developers based in South Korea39
- Cancer drug developers based in Australia38
- Cancer drug developers based in Sweden27
- Cancer drug developers based in the Netherlands25
Cities
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 cancer drug developers, 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 cancer drug developers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,370 cancer drug developers worldwide 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?
AMGEN, headquartered in Thousand Oaks, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most cancer drug developers?
The United States leads with 879 companies, followed by China (120) and India (115). Every cancer drug developers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most cancer drug developers?
San Diego leads with 73 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (68) and New York (49).
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 68,223 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,370 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 19, 2026.
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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.