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Angela Gabriel

Angela Gabriel

Content Manager, Life Sciences Careers

Angela Gabriel is content manager at BioSpace. She covers the biopharma job market, job trends and career advice, and produces client content. You can reach her at angela.gabriel@biospace.com and follow her on LinkedIn.

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Career Advice
The Right Fit: What BMS, Intellia Look for in Cell and Gene Therapy Talent
When hiring job candidates to work on cell and gene therapies, companies look for more than just technical skills. Talent acquisition executives from Bristol Myers Squibb and Intellia Therapeutics offer an inside look at what they want in an employee.
December 12, 2024
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5 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Carisma Therapeutics to Cut 34% of Staff, Reprioritize Pipeline
Carisma’s second workforce reduction this year likely leaves the company with 44 full-time employees as turns its focus to developing therapies for fibrosis, oncology and autoimmune diseases.
December 10, 2024
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
The Top 12 Companies Hiring in Biopharma Now
Looking for a biopharma job? Check out the BioSpace list of 12 top companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
December 5, 2024
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Policy
How Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Affect Biopharma Professionals’ Work Visas
Based on how President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration handled immigration, experts are concerned about how his second term will impact foreign-born biopharma professionals. Two immigration attorneys discuss what may be ahead, including increased difficulty getting work visas.
December 5, 2024
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Creations
Massachusetts Increases Life Sciences Investment by $500M Over 10 Years
Massachusetts’ increased investment in the life sciences industry includes boosting its life sciences tax incentive program by $10 million annually, aiding job creation in the state.
November 21, 2024
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Flexing on the Competition? Smaller Companies Get Higher Marks for Flexibility
Many biopharma professionals view smaller companies as having the best flexibility and remote work options, but that doesn’t mean their larger counterparts are failing in that area. Several professionals, including Apogee Therapeutics and Insmed executives, share their insights.
November 21, 2024
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Group Of Employees Being Fired By Their Company.
Layoffs
Gilead and Kite Are Cutting Employees, Closing Seattle, Philadelphia Sites
Gilead’s layoffs include 72 employees at its Seattle location, which will close. Kite will shut down its Philadelphia facility. The layoffs are attributed to aligning resources with long-term strategic goals.
November 15, 2024
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Lays Off 45% of Employees
The November layoffs are the second known workforce reduction this year for Marinus Pharmaceuticals, which previously announced disappointing Phase III results for ganaxolone in two clinical trials.
November 14, 2024
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
BioSpace Announces 2025 Best Places to Work in Biopharma
BioSpace has named 50 biopharma companies to its 2025 Best Places to Work list, including Moderna and Sutro Biopharma, whose executives share what makes their organizations special.
November 12, 2024
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Viracta Therapeutics Cuts 42% of Staff as Part of Resource Reprioritization
Following two layoffs in less than three months, Viracta Therapeutics may have around 18 employees left to advance its efforts to bring lead product candidate nana-val to market.
November 7, 2024
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Job Trends
2024 Q3 Job Market Report: Biopharma Professionals Face Heavy Competition for Fewer Jobs
Year-over-year BioSpace data shows there are fewer job postings live on the website and far more competition for them.
November 7, 2024
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3 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Group Of Employees Being Fired By Their Company.
Layoffs
Sana Biotechnology Will Lay Off Employees as It Shifts Pipeline
About a year after cutting staff by 29%, Sana Biotechnology will trim its workforce as it increases investment in its type 1 diabetes program and looks to extend its cash runway.
November 5, 2024
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
Breaking Into Biotech: What You Must Know to Enter Industry
Candidates looking to enter biotech should focus on cultivating key skills, thoughtfully crafting their resumes and putting their best, most authentic foot forward in interviews. An internship, co-op or fellowship won’t hurt, either.
October 31, 2024
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Employees Walking In And Out Of The Door, Some Were Leaving Their Job And Some Were Being Hired At The Same Time. Full Length, Isolated On Solid Color Background. Vector, Illustration, Flat Design, Character.
Layoffs
Spero Therapeutics to Lay Off 39% of Employees
Following disappointing results for an antibiotic candidate whose development program is now being suspended, Spero Therapeutics is looking to extend its cash runway while it focuses on other assets in its pipeline.
October 30, 2024
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Creations
Massachusetts Tax Incentives for Moderna, Vertex and More Creating 1,155 Jobs
Nineteen companies are receiving $21.4 million total in tax incentive awards to create 1,155 new life sciences jobs in Massachusetts. Moderna and Vertex received the largest awards and will add over 600 combined jobs.
October 24, 2024
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4 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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