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Schizophrenia: 8 biotech companies competing in the clinic

Neurology & PsychiatryGold rushData as of 2026-09-04

Competitors8in the clinic
Median market cap$1.4Buniverse median $1.20B
Allocated capital$9.2B$36.6B competing
Phase 3 or filed44 mid, 0 early
Pure plays1this indication only
Capital rank13/299crowding rank 13

Schizophrenia is both crowded and richly priced: 8 companies are in the clinic and the median one is worth $1.4B, against a universe median of $1.20B.

Crowded fields usually trade at a discount per company, so a premium in a field this deep says the market is pricing the size of the prize above the cost of the competition.

4 of the 8 are in Phase 3 or filed, and 6 dated catalysts fall in the next 12 months, so this ranking is likely to move.

$9.2B of allocated capital sits in Schizophrenia, 13th of 299 indications, and 1 of the 8 companies are pure plays that trade on this indication alone.

Companies developing drugs for Schizophrenia 8

TickerCompanyLead assetPhaseTrialsMarket capPure playIndicationsNext catalyst
NBIXNeurocrine BiosciencesNBI-1117568Phase 35$16.1BNo6 31 Dec 2027
ALKSAlkermesOLZ/SAMPhase 32$7.9BNo3No dated event
LBRXLB PharmaceuticalsLB-102Phase 32$1.5BNo2 30 Jun 2027
VNDAVanda PharmaceuticalsiloperidonePhase 31$323MNo7 12 Dec 2026
TGTXTG TherapeuticsUblituximabPhase 21$8.7BNo4 31 Dec 2026
ANROAlto NeuroscienceALTO-101Phase 21$1.3BNo3 31 Dec 2026
MPLTMapLight TherapeuticsML-007C-MAPhase 21$560MNo3 31 Dec 2026
AVXLAnavex Life SciencesANAVEX3-71Phase 21$264MYes1 30 Sep 2026

Sorted by phase, then by market capitalisation. Ticker links open the company profile. NBIX holds 44% of the $36.6B competing in this indication.

Why Schizophrenia is a gold rush

Crowded and richly priced: six or more competitors, and the median one is worth more than the median small or mid cap biotech.

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. Schizophrenia has 8 competitors and a median of $1.4B.

Neurology & Psychiatry

Neurology & Psychiatry holds $120B of the map's capital, 17.9% of the total, spread across 46 indications and 58 companies. 19 of those indications have more than one company competing.

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Schizophrenia pipeline questions

Which biotech companies are developing drugs for Schizophrenia?

8 US-listed companies in the $100M to $20B market cap band run clinical programmes in Schizophrenia. The largest and most advanced are Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX, NBI-1117568, Phase 3); Alkermes (ALKS, OLZ/SAM, Phase 3); LB Pharmaceuticals (LBRX, LB-102, Phase 3); Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA, iloperidone, Phase 3); TG Therapeutics (TGTX, Ublituximab, Phase 2). The full list of 8 is in the table on this page.

How advanced is the Schizophrenia pipeline?

Of the 8 clinical-stage programmes in Schizophrenia, 4 are in Phase 3 or filed, 4 are in mid-stage development and 0 are in early-stage development.

How much is the typical Schizophrenia biotech company worth?

The median company developing a drug for Schizophrenia is worth $1.4B, against a median of $1.20B across the whole universe. $9.2B of allocated capital sits in the indication, ranking it 13th of 299.

When is the next Schizophrenia catalyst?

The next dated catalyst in Schizophrenia is AVXL on 30 Sep 2026. 6 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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