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Top 25 Drug discovery consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 552 drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 16,118 professional contacts across them, including 8,092 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 28, 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 drug discovery consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Partnering to Advance Human Health A unique culture delivering exceptional solutions: Almac is a financially secure, privately owned organisation with 7,800+ employees globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Expanding on their combined 50-year history, Perceptive provides best-in-class specialist support to global pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations, spanning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 582 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Sygnature Discovery, a global drug discovery CRO, we create exceptional scientific outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 521 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2005, o2h discovery is a Contract Research Organisation which has an integrated drug discovery platform operating from our state-of-the-art research centre in India and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Calyx and Invicro are now Perceptive!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We develop and apply fragment and structure-based methods to solve problems in drug discovery, and have generated cell active lead compounds and development candidates against…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 280 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IDBS helps BioPharma organizations unlock the potential of AI/ML to improve the lives of patients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “hVIVO plc (Ticker: HVO) is a science‑led early‑phase drug development company purpose‑built to meet the growing complexity of modern clinical research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Concept Life Sciences is a knowledge-based, science-led and customer-focused contract research and manufacturing organisation with world-leading expertise in the pharmaceutical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Cyprotex has grown to become an industry leader in in vitro and in silico ADME-Tox.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winner of the prestigious King's Award for Enterprise 2023, Queen's Award for Enterprise 2016 and ranking in Vault.com’s 25 Best Consulting Companies to work for - Lifescience…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Adelphi provides a wide range of strategic support services and consulting for global pharmaceutical clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CatSci Ltd is an award-winning innovation partner, dedicated to breaking down the silos in small molecules, TACS, glues and oligonucleotides CMC development to accelerate the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arcinova, A Quotient Sciences Company, is dedicated to providing innovative contract research, development, and manufacturing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Domainex is a fully integrated drug discovery service company based near Cambridge, UK serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and patient foundations globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deallus is a global life science consultancy with a heritage in Competitive Intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RoukenBio – CRO redefined.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cresset® is revolutionizing molecule design and cross-team communication, combining cutting-edge science with AI/ML to enable our customers to discover new compounds faster and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Onyx Scientific is a CDMO that helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the globe, accelerate candidates from discovery to manufacturing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2013, BioAscent is a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services based at the former Organon / MSD R&D site in Newhouse, Scotland, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “tranScrip is a specialist pharmaceutical consultancy that helps biopharmaceutical companies transform great science into valuable medicines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uptake (Uptake Strategies Ltd) is part of Prescient Healthcare Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kintiga (formerly MAP Patient Access, AxTalis & SKC) is Europe’s independent specialist pharmaceutical and biotechnology management consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're Cambridge Healthcare Research, the trusted partner for every healthcare decision maker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ApconiX was formed by three AstraZeneca colleagues with the drive and ambition to create a world-renowned company known for its expertise in nonclinical safety toxicology and ion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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: drug discovery consulting firms. 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 discovery consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drug discovery consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drug discovery consulting firms. 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 discovery consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 552 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 discovery consulting firms, 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “drug discovery consulting firms”. 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 discovery consulting firms), 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 discovery consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 8,092 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 28, 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.
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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 drug discovery consulting firms, 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 discovery consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 552 drug discovery consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Almac Group, headquartered in Craigavon, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drug discovery consulting firms?
London leads with 157 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (35) and Nottingham (15).
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 8,092 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 552 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 28, 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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