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Angela Gabriel

Angela Gabriel

Content Manager, Life Sciences Careers

Angela Gabriel is content manager, life sciences careers, 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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Layoffs
Gilead wipes out most of Arcellx workforce
Gilead is laying off Arcellx employees in California and Maryland, with some cuts effective this year and the remainder happening in 2027.
May 7, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
Winning the room: how to ace panel interviews
Panel interviews can play a major role in getting jobs. Two career coaches discuss what to do before and during the interview, including identifying how to differentiate yourself, engaging in true conversations and not overlooking a key panel member.
May 7, 2026
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5 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Increased capital boosts biotech R&D job postings, employment
Biotech R&D job postings live on BioSpace rose for the fourth straight month in April, and a CBRE report shared similar findings for employment. The head of CBRE’s U.S. life sciences practice discusses what’s behind the growth and the current job market.
May 7, 2026
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4 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.
May 7, 2026
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Job Trends
2026 Q1 Job Market Report: Job postings picked up as quarter progressed
Opportunities increased by the end of the first quarter, according to BioSpace data.
May 7, 2026
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4 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Passage cuts 75% of workforce after FDA trial design request
Passage Bio, which has been working toward a registrational trial for a drug candidate whose indications include frontotemporal dementia, is exploring strategic alternatives in addition to cutting staff.
May 4, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Company closure
6 biotechs that called it quits in Q1
Six biotechs based in California, Massachusetts, Washington and Denmark had to halt drug development efforts this year. One of their CEOs is now in an interim chief executive role at another biotech.
April 30, 2026
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
7 companies hiring in North Carolina now
Looking for a biopharma job in North Carolina? Check out the BioSpace list of seven companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
April 30, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Show, don’t tell: doing free work during the interview process
Over one-third of BioSpace LinkedIn poll respondents have done free work while interviewing for jobs. A recruiting expert and career coach discuss why employers make work requests and how biopharma professionals should evaluate and respond to them.
April 30, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Life sciences still falls short on pay equity
Women and nonwhite racial/ethnic groups are still earning less in the life sciences. An industry consultant discusses the pay disparities, ways to fix the gaps and why change is needed.
April 23, 2026
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5 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
11 companies hiring in Illinois now
Looking for a biopharma job in Illinois? Check out the BioSpace list of 11 companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
April 23, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Washington’s life sciences jobs continue increasing, up 50% from 2014-2024: report
While life sciences employment was down 0.3% nationally in 2024, it rose 1.9% in Washington, according to a new Life Science Washington report. The association’s CEO discusses the latest findings and how the state’s job market looks this year.
April 23, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Replimune cuts will leave over 200 jobless in Massachusetts
Replimune is axing 144 employees at its Woburn headquarters and 80 at its Framingham manufacturing site. The cuts follow the FDA’s second rejection of the biotech’s advanced melanoma candidate.
April 21, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Biopharmas pull back on layoffs in Q1
The trend of fewer companies letting employees go, which began in the fourth quarter of last year, has continued. However, more employees were on the chopping block in Q1 2026 than in Q1 2025, due mainly to one company’s cuts.
April 16, 2026
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
50 employees impacted as Astellas closes Universal Cells’ Seattle office
By closing the Universal Cells Seattle location, Astellas is reportedly consolidating cell therapy, gene therapy and oncology research at its South San Francisco, California, and Westborough, Massachusetts, sites.
April 14, 2026
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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