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Top 25 Contract research laboratories based in San Diego, United States

RevenueBase identified 60 contract research laboratories headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,124 professional contacts across them, including 505 with verified work emails. San Diego is the largest hub.

This list covers contract research laboratories headquartered in San Diego, 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.

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60Companies
1,124Contacts tracked
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The 25 largest contract research laboratories based in San Diego, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 60 contract research laboratories based in San Diego, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to contract research laboratories: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000441 contacts →

Strong 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, 2026
2Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200115 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BPS Bioscience advances new scientific discoveries that lead to therapies by creating innovative solutions for research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20079 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Strong evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,00057 contacts →

Strong evidence

“ChemDiv, a fully Integrated Target-to-Market Contract Research Organization (CRO) headquartered in San Diego, CA USA.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5040 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Headquartered in San Diego, CA, iXCells Biotechnologies is a leading cell biology and cell technology company specializing in preclinical drug discovery solutions with focus on…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50031 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“COI Pharma provides life science inventors with an environment where entrepreneurial and scientific risks are encouraged and rewarded.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 2014, PhenoVista is a San Diego-based CRO specializing in the development of cell-based, in vitro assays, with an emphasis on phenotypic screening and high-content…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EnquBio is a wholly owned and operated drug development CRO out of San Diego, CA.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Strong evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20020 contacts →

Strong evidence

“ChemBridge Corporation is a global provider of enabling chemistry products and contract research services for small molecule drug discovery and chemical biology research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5017 contacts →

Partial evidence

“AcelaBio, wholly owned by The Alimentiv Health Trust, was incorporated in 2020 and aims to meet the growing clinical research demand for quality and efficiency in laboratory…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EZ Labs LLC is a privately owned cGMP compliant analytical laboratory in the heart of San Diego’s thriving biotech community.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Aroga Biosciences is an award-winning CRO that provides highly experienced regulatory writing and submission services for biotech and pharmaceutical projects.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Somatek, we provide consulting for the development of manufacturing processes for next generation biopharmaceuticals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Acculab is a rapidly growing, OLAW-assured, preclinical CRO in the San Diego area, designed to assist you with every step along the R&D in vivo journey.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Levena Biopharma is a global ADC CRO/CDMO dedicated to advancing Antibody Drug Conjugate programs from discovery to the clinic and beyond.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Strong evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-109 contacts →

Strong evidence

“L3 Healthcare is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) and healthcare consulting firm focused on in vitro diagnostics (IVD) and medical devices.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Provider of development and contract manufacturing services across the life sciences and biotech industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“MABPLEX USA, INC offers our partners contract services from DNA to finished drug product.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Capienda Biotech is accelerating drug discovery for the pharmaceutical industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At SoCal Biosciences, our mission is to support and pioneer advancements in the field of RNA and next-generation RNA therapeutics and vaccines.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We help our clients advance their topical and transdermal drug programs all the way from product concept assessment through to first regulatory filing, or with one or more stages…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Strong evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-504 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Acres Biosciences is a leading contract research organization dedicated to advancing drug discovery through cell line engineering, assay development, and in vivo preclinical…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Xen Biofluidx Inc is a seasoned research and assay development team with over 65 years of combined assay development experience!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Contract research laboratories based in San Diego, United States at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
44.9%Verified-email coverage
18.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
100.0%Largest-city concentration · San Diego
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
29
11-50
21
51-200
6
201-500
1
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Diego, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Diego, over 60 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 contract research laboratories, 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 San Diego, United States whose own description of what they do matches “contract research laboratories”. 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 contract research laboratories), 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 contract research laboratories, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Diego 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, 505 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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Contract research laboratories by metro in the United States

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 contract research laboratories, 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 contract research laboratories are there based in San Diego, United States?

RevenueBase identified 60 contract research laboratories headquartered in San Diego, 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?

Crown Bioscience, headquartered in San Diego, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most contract research laboratories?

San Diego leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (26) and New York (25).

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 505 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 60 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.