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Top 17 Cancer drug development companies based in Italy

RevenueBase identified 35 cancer drug development companies headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 4,579 professional contacts across them, including 1,458 with verified work emails. Milan is the largest hub.

This list covers cancer drug development companies headquartered in Italy, 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.

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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The 17 largest cancer drug development companies based in Italy

Ranked by team size
Top 17 of 35 cancer drug development companies based in Italy, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to cancer drug development 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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1Partial evidenceMilano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,364 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The IEO European Institute of Oncology is a Research Hospital (IRCCS) dedicated to the treatment of cancer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Partial evidencePadova, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000630 contacts →

Partial evidence

“L’Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV – IRCCS è il primo e unico Istituto del Veneto destinato in maniera specifica alla ricerca sul cancro e alla prevenzione, diagnosi e cura dei…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceMeldola, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000328 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ISTITUTO SCIENTIFICO ROMAGNOLO PER LO STUDIO E LA CURA DEI TUMORI(I.R.S.T.) SRL is a Biotechnology company located in VIA PIETRO MARONCELLI 40, Meldola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceMilano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200247 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Dal 1965 Fondazione AIRC sostiene con continuità la ricerca indipendente sul cancro con l’obiettivo di trasformare le scoperte scientifiche in cure efficaci.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceNerviano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20084 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Nerviano Medical Sciences S.r.l.(NMS Srl) focuses on discovering and clinically developing small molecule NCEs for oncology, aiming to deliver first- and best-in-class…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceNerviano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20077 contacts →

Partial evidence

“NerPharMa operates as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization and is characterized by a strong specialization in oncology with important know-how and the highest…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceNerviano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50043 contacts →

Partial evidence

“NMS is a global, integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative oncology therapies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Partial evidenceCandiolo, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5024 contacts →

Partial evidence

“La Fondazione è stata costituita per offrire un contributo significativo alla sconfitta del cancro attraverso la realizzazione in Piemonte di un polo oncologico, che sappia…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceCorciano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5020 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Tes Pharma is a research-based biotech, founded in 2011 by Professor Roberto Pellicciari, focused on delivering proprietary first-in-class drug candidates for oncology, renal and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceMilan, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BetaGlue Therapeutics is a clinical stage Lifesciences company that has developed an advanced radiotherapy solution : YntraDose® YntraDose® is a targeted and personalised…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceOzzano Dell'emilia, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5020 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BIOGENERA SpA is a company operating in the biotechnology pharmaceutical sector, specialising in the research and development of new DNA-based patient-specific biotechnological…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceRoma, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ACC, la più grande organizzazione di ricerca oncologica italiana, è stata fondata nel 2002 dal Ministero della Salute tra sei centri di alto livello di cura e ricerca del cancro…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceMilan, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sophos Biotech was founded by a teamof experts - with a long and consolidated experience in the pharmaceutical industry- who made their acquired professionalskills available to…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceForlì, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Strong evidenceMilan, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 contacts →

Strong evidence

“CheckmAb Srl is an innovative start-up biotech company focused on the development of novel monoclonal antibodies for cancer immunotherapy, with the aim to provide safer and more…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLatina, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Partial evidenceTurin, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At ALKemist Bio we are developing TCR-T cells that possess the ability to specifically target ALK antigens found on ALK-positive cancer cells, primarily focusing on non-small cell…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Cancer drug development companies based in Italy at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
31.8%Verified-email coverage
130.8Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
14.3%Largest-city concentration · Milan
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
15
11-50
8
51-200
4
201-500
3
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
3
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 35 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 cancer drug development 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “cancer drug development 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 cancer drug development 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 cancer drug development companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 1,458 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
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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 development companies, 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 development companies are there based in Italy?

RevenueBase identified 35 cancer drug development companies headquartered in Italy 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?

IEO Istituto Europeo DI Oncologia, headquartered in Milano, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most cancer drug development companies?

Milan leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Milano (3) and Nerviano (3).

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 1,458 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 35 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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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.