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Top 25 Cancer drug development companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 986 cancer drug development companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 102,965 professional contacts across them, including 29,929 with verified work emails. San Diego is the largest hub.
This list covers cancer drug development companies headquartered in the United States, 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.
The 25 largest cancer drug development companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20,174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is one of the world’s most respected centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 18,673 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,956 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fred Hutch is an independent, nonprofit organization that also serves as the cancer program for UW Medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 857 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seagen is now part of Pfizer!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 482 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deciphera, a member of Ono Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and delivering novel, innovative medicines to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crown Bioscience, a JSR Life Sciences company, is a global contract research organization (CRO) providing discovery, preclinical, and translational platforms to advance oncology…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eikon Therapeutics is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company advancing a pipeline of potential therapies for patients with unmet medical needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MacroGenics is a leader in the discovery and development of innovative medicines that utilize our next generation antibody-based technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 405 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of Taiho Oncology, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 338 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Karyopharm Therapeutics is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering the science of nuclear export inhibition to develop differentiated therapies for patients with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 336 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative cancer therapies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 336 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida is a next-generation cancer treatment destination known for its leading clinical care and research, compassionate patient…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 294 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kura Oncology is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing innovative precision medicines to help patients with cancer lead better…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc, is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 282 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sutro Biopharma, Inc, is relentlessly focused on the discovery and development of precisely designed cancer therapeutics to transform what science can do for patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At The START Center for Cancer Care our mission is to deliver high-quality care for our patients, accelerate the development of new cancer treatments, and provide hope for those…” 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 development companies. 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 development companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cancer drug development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cancer drug development companies. 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 development companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 986 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 the United States 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 United States 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, 29,929 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.
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 the United States?
RevenueBase identified 986 cancer drug development companies headquartered in the United States 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?
UT MD Anderson, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most cancer drug development companies?
San Diego leads with 78 headquartered companies, followed by New York (64) and Cambridge (59).
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 29,929 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 986 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.
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