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Top 25 Drug development and research companies based in France

Name: Drug development and research companies based in France
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026 220 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 220 drug development and research companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 23,377 professional contacts across them, including 9,454 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers drug development and research companies headquartered in France, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest drug development and research companies based in France

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 220 drug development and research companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to drug development and research 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Servier	Indirect evidence	Suresnes, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	10001+	10,958 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Servier is an independent international pharmaceutical group governed by a foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2	IPSEN	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	5,943 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on bringing transformative medicines to patients in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3	Euroapi	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	1,369 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active pharmaceutical ingredients to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4	Novartis France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	1,001-5,000	498 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Novartis est une entreprise dans les médicaments innovants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5	Novalix	Partial evidence	Strasbourg, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	347 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Novalix is a premier drug discovery partner to biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6	Minakem	Partial evidence	Minakem, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	501-1,000	275 contacts →
	Partial evidence “MINAKEM is a fully integrated development partner and commercial manufacturer for pharmaceutical companies- API manufacturing (Innovators/Generics and Highly Potent)- Custom…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7	Biotrial	Partial evidence	Europe And North America, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	271 contacts →
	Partial evidence “A Global Provider in Early Development, we offer Non-Clinical, Clinical and Bioanalytical solutions for both pharmaceutical and biotech companies and we tailor our high-quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8	Recordati France	Indirect evidence	Puteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	232 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “LABORATOIRES BOUCHARA RECORDATI is a pharmaceuticals company based out of 70, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, Puteaux, Île-de-France, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9	Oncodesign Services	Indirect evidence	Dijon Cedex, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	191 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Oncodesign Services supports biopharma and biotechnology teams navigating critical preclinical decisions as programs progress toward the clinic.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10	Eurofins Cdmo Europe	Strong evidence	Fontenilles, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	187 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Eurofins CDMO is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that provides clients with APIs / Drug Substance and Drug Product development for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11	Ividata Life Sciences	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	146 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Ividata Life Sciences is a consulting and services company dedicated to the Life Sciences industry: pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, cosmetology, medical devices, etc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12	Texcell	Indirect evidence	Evry, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	112 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “About Texcell We are a specialized CRO supporting biologics, vaccines, medical devices, cell and gene therapies, and other complex biological products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13	Aqemia	Partial evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	84 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AQEMIA is a drug invention company dedicated to novel medicines, never me-toos, tackling major diseases such as oncology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14	Uniivo	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	83 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Established in 2008, Uniivo is a dynamic company with over 160 employees across two subsidiaries (France and Spain), offering a wide range of services: Science (Outsourcing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15	Pierre Fabre Oncology	Indirect evidence	Castres, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	5,001-10,000	71 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pierre Fabre Laboratories is one of Europe's leading pharmaceutical companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16	Edelris	Indirect evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “EDELRIS is a pioneering company dedicated to the design and chemical synthesis of innovative natural product-like screening Libraries, medicinal chemistry Hit-to-Lead / Lead…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17	Valbiotis	Strong evidence	Périgny, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Valbiotis is a commercially oriented Research & Development company committed to scientific innovation for preventing and combating metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18	AB Science	Partial evidence	FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	60 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AB Science was founded in 2001 by a team of researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to discover key mechanisms in life science and develop new…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19	Diverchim Cdmo	Partial evidence	Roissy-en-france, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in Diverchim is a Small Molecule Drug Substance CDMO that specializes in complex chemistry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20	Otsuka Pharmaceutical France	Indirect evidence	Rueil-malmaison, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	51 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Otsuka Pharmaceutical est une société internationale de produits de santé dont la philosophie est la suivante : « Otsuka – des hommes et des femmes qui créent de nouveaux produits…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21	Therabel	Indirect evidence	Levallois-perret, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	201-500	49 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Therabel is a privately-owned pharmaceutical company, with a European heritage stretching back to 1945.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22	Neuro-Sys	Partial evidence	Gardanne, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Neuro-Sys is a research-intensive and innovative organisation specialising in pharmacology and in advanced in vitro and in vivo models of neurodegenerative diseases, mode of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23	Medac France	Indirect evidence	Lyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Chez medac, nous sommes convaincus que la santé est notre ressource la plus précieuse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24	Etap-Lab	Indirect evidence	Vandoeuvre-lès-nancy, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ETAP-LAB – Preclinical CRO supporting therapeutic innovations for over 35 years ETAP-LAB is a recognized European preclinical CRO delivering efficient, cost-effective services to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25	Lundbeck France	Indirect evidence	Puteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026	51-200	34 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lundbeck est une société pharmaceutique mondiale spécialisée dans les maladies du cerveau avec 5600 employés répartis dans plus de 50 pays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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: drug development and research 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 drug development and research companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of drug development and research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name drug development and research 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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Drug development and research companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026

40.4%Verified-email coverage

106.3Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

20.0%Largest-city concentration · Paris

Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

107

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 220 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 drug development and research 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “drug development and research 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 drug development and research 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 drug development and research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 9,454 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.

Drug development and research companies by metro

Drug development and research companies in Paris44

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 drug development and research 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 drug development and research companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 220 drug development and research companies headquartered in France 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?

Servier, headquartered in Suresnes, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most drug development and research companies?

Paris leads with 44 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (11) and Toulouse (7).

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 9,454 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 220 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.