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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: 30 biotech companies competing in the clinic

OncologyKnife fightData as of 2026-09-04

Competitors30in the clinic
Median market cap$1.1Buniverse median $1.20B
Allocated capital$16.2B$82.3B competing
Phase 3 or filed512 mid, 13 early
Pure plays3this indication only
Capital rank4/299crowding rank 1

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is one of the more crowded fields on the map: 30 companies in the clinic, ranking it 1st of 299 indications by competitor count. The median competitor is worth $1.1B, below the $1.20B median of the universe.

That gap is the crowding discount. When a field is deep the market pays less per company, because the same eventual revenue has to be split across more shots on goal.

No one owns the field: the largest company, JAZZ, holds only 20% of the $82.3B competing here.

$16.2B of allocated capital sits in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, 4th of 299 indications, and 3 of the 30 companies are pure plays that trade on this indication alone.

Companies developing drugs for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 14 of 30

TickerCompanyLead assetPhaseTrialsMarket capPure playIndicationsNext catalyst
SMMTSummit TherapeuticsivonescimabPhase 33$13.7BNo5 14 Nov 2026
IBRXImmunityBioN-803Phase 34$8.7BNo12 31 Dec 2026
HCMHUTCHMED (China)SavolitinibPhase 31$2.5BNo6No dated event
NUVBNuvation BioTaletrectinibPhase 35$2.4BNo3 26 Oct 2026
AVBPArriVent BioPharmaJAB-21822Phase 312$1.4BNo5No dated event
JAZZJazz PharmaceuticalsZanidatamabPhase 21$16.1BNo14 30 Sep 2026
IOVAIovance BiotherapeuticsLN-145/LN-144Phase 21$3.9BNo6 23 Oct 2026
RCUSArcus BiosciencesZimberelimabPhase 24$3.8BNo5 14 Nov 2026
REPLReplimune GroupRP1, intra-tumoral, oncolytic virusPhase 21$1.3BNo4 31 Dec 2030
CADLCandel Therapeuticsaglatimagene besadenovecPhase 21$992MNo2 30 Sep 2026
DSGNDesign TherapeuticsAlectinib- UsualPhase 22$941MNo6 31 Dec 2026
VSTMVerastemVS-7375Phase 23$723MNo8 31 Dec 2026
EIKNEikon TherapeuticsEIK1001Phase 22$593MYes1 23 Oct 2026
AGENAgenusBotensilimabPhase 21$371MNo7 31 Dec 2026

Sorted by phase, then by market capitalisation. Ticker links open the company profile. Showing the 14 largest of the 30 companies competing in this indication. JAZZ holds 20% of the $82.3B competing in this indication.

Why Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is a knife fight

Crowded and cheaply priced. Six or more competitors and a median company below the universe median.

The map splits indications on two folds: six or more competitors counts as crowded, and a median company above $1.20B counts as richly priced. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer has 30 competitors and a median of $1.1B.

Oncology

Oncology holds $187B of the map's capital, 27.8% of the total, spread across 119 indications and 103 companies. 34 of those indications have more than one company competing.

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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer pipeline questions

Which biotech companies are developing drugs for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?

30 US-listed companies in the $100M to $20B market cap band run clinical programmes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. The largest and most advanced are Summit Therapeutics (SMMT, ivonescimab, Phase 3); ImmunityBio (IBRX, N-803, Phase 3); HUTCHMED (China) (HCM, Savolitinib, Phase 3); Nuvation Bio (NUVB, Taletrectinib, Phase 3); ArriVent BioPharma (AVBP, JAB-21822, Phase 3). The table on this page lists the 14 largest of them.

How advanced is the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer pipeline?

Of the 30 clinical-stage programmes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, 5 are in Phase 3 or filed, 12 are in mid-stage development and 13 are in early-stage development.

How much is the typical Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer biotech company worth?

The median company developing a drug for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is worth $1.1B, against a median of $1.20B across the whole universe. $16.2B of allocated capital sits in the indication, ranking it 4th of 299.

When is the next Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer catalyst?

The next dated catalyst in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer is JAZZ on 30 Sep 2026. 26 dated events across the field fall in the next 12 months.

How this page is built

  • Universe is US-listed drug developers with a $100M to $20B market capitalisation, identified by SEC SIC code 2833, 2834 or 2836 or by a pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry classification, less a reviewed exclusion list of contract research organisations, device and diagnostics makers and diversified generics manufacturers.
  • An asset attributed to three or more different companies is treated as shared standard of care rather than any one company’s programme and excluded. Pembrolizumab alone appears under 21 tickers in raw trial data.
  • A programme counts only where at least one industry-sponsored trial supports it, so investigator-initiated academic studies of third-party drugs are excluded.

Allocated capital divides each company’s market capitalisation evenly across the indications it is running clinical programmes in, so every dollar of the universe is counted exactly once. Total market capitalisation competing counts a company in each of its indications and therefore sums to more than the universe.

Third-party market size estimates are not used anywhere on this page. Approved incumbents are excluded from competitor counts, and companies above $20B are outside the universe by construction.

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