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Top 25 Oncology drug discovery companies based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 81 oncology drug discovery companies headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 3,180 professional contacts across them, including 1,179 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers oncology drug discovery companies headquartered in Canada, 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 20, 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 25 largest oncology drug discovery companies based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 81 oncology drug discovery companies based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to oncology drug discovery 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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1Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0001,062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is Canada’s largest integrated cancer research, teaching, and treatment centre, one of the top cancer research centres in the world and is one…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500329 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Each year, more than 14 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer and more than eight million people die from the disease.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500266 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Partial evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500232 contacts →

Partial evidence

“TRIO is a unique, full-service oncology clinical research organization (CRO) that leverages the strengths of our worldwide network of Investigators, academic leaders, patient…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 2026501-1,000211 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At Sygnature Discovery, a global drug discovery CRO, we create exceptional scientific outcomes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Indirect evidenceKingston, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,000100 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) is a cancer clinical trials research cooperative conducting phase trials to test anti-cancer and supportive therapies in over 80…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Indirect evidenceCalgary, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20061 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Charbonneau Cancer Institute is one of seven health research institutes at the University of Calgary.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Strong evidenceMississauga, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20058 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Dalriada is a small molecule drug discovery company supporting global innovators through its TURN-KEY™ model, where R&D is perfectly aligned with business and IP.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,00045 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Partial evidenceRichmond, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20041 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Virogin Biotech aims to be a global, best-in-class oncolytic virus company that creates impactful drugs for patients of the highest medical need.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5031 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), named for Canadian icon Terry Fox, is built on Terry's dream to end cancer through research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Strong evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5024 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 2017, 48Hour Discovery (48HD) has a powerful technology platform for peptide-based drug discovery.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pôle de recherche, de développement et d'investissement pour accélérer la lutte contre le cancer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceOakville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“FORUS Therapeutics is a Canadian biopharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing differentiated, novel medicines for hematologic malignancies and other forms of cancer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMontréal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Organisme sans but lucratif, fondé en 1947, qui a pour mission de favoriser la recherche fondamentale et clinique sur le cancer ainsi que de préparer la relève dans ce domaine.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Phenomic’s mission is to raise the survival curve for the hardest to treat solid tumors (e.g, colorectal, pancreatic, breast cancers).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Cyclenium Pharma is a growing pharmaceutical R&D company exploiting its next generation CMRT™ macrocyclic drug discovery technology to identify novel small molecule therapeutics…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Indirect evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Defence Therapeutics is a publicly traded Canadian biotechnology company committed to making cancer treatment more effective and safer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20Indirect evidenceMoncton, NB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company dedicated to developing effective and novel targeted treatments for cancer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21Indirect evidenceOakville, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22Indirect evidenceQuébec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Quebec - Clinical Research Organization in Cancer (Q-CROC) is a not-for-profit organization that has been active since 2008.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23Indirect evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rakovina Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical research company focused on the development of innovative cancer treatments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24Partial evidenceQuébec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“9Bio Therapeutics is a biotech company committed to developing innovative oncology therapeutics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25Partial evidenceRichmond, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BioMark is an oncology-focused company with advanced near-to- market diagnostic technologies designed to improve patient outcomes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Oncology drug discovery companies based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
37.1%Verified-email coverage
39.3Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
19.8%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
38
11-50
24
51-200
7
201-500
7
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
4

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 81 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 oncology drug discovery 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “oncology drug discovery 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 oncology drug discovery 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 oncology drug discovery companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 1,179 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 20, 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 oncology drug discovery 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 oncology drug discovery companies are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 81 oncology drug discovery companies headquartered in Canada 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?

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most oncology drug discovery companies?

Toronto leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (14) and Vancouver (9).

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 1,179 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 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 20, 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.