BioSpace News Archive

Job Trends

New Biopharma Job Expansions Help Ring in the New Year

While many industries are struggling, biopharma is booming. Here’s an overview of last month’s company expansion announcements, who’s growing their footprint and adding more jobs.

January 27, 2021
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Kate Goodwin
Drug Development

UK Offers Genomics Expertise to Help Nations ID New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

On Tuesday, the U.K. offered its genomics expertise to identify emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to countries that lack the resources to make such identifications.

January 27, 2021
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Gail Dutton
Bio NC

BioSpace Launches 2021 Hotbed Maps to Highlight Thriving Life Sciences Clusters

See the companies featured in our 2021 maps, explore the territories that are thriving in the life sciences industry, research leading employers and search for relevant jobs on BioSpace.

January 27, 2021
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Ellen Bombela
Business

Vir and GSK Team Up with Eli Lilly for Double Monoclonal Antibody Study

Vir Biotechnology, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline struck a three-way collaborative deal to evaluate its investigational monoclonal antibody, VIR-7831, in combination with Lilly’s bamlanivimab in low-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

January 27, 2021
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Alex Keown
Business

J.P. Morgan: Will Biotech’s Virtual 2021 Launch Become the New Reality?

At the annual J.P. Morgan conference, the biotech industry launched its encore to a wildly successful 2020 – virtually. And, as is becoming the common scenario, attendees found both pros and cons to our new (temporary?) reality.

January 27, 2021
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Heather McKenzie
Genetown

COVID-19 Vaccines Only Tip of the Iceberg for These Leaders

Much of the attention on Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca for the last few months has been on their COVID-19 vaccine efforts.

January 27, 2021
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Mark Terry
Business

Money on the Move: January 21-26

A brief rundown of who’s raking in cash in the biopharma world.

January 27, 2021
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Kate Goodwin
Policy

UPDATE: Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plant

Police have sealed off the area, according to the report. Few details were available, but eye witnesses said a robot was investigating a suspicious package found at the plant.

January 27, 2021
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Alex Keown
Drug Development

News Brief: J&J Could Supply U.S. with 100 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses and More

J&J indicated it will soon release Phase III data and could file for Emergency Use Authorization with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by the end of the month.

January 27, 2021
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Alex Keown
Pharm Country

Pfizer’s RA Hopeful Fails to Meet Co-Primary Endpoint in Safety Study

Pfizer announced in a statement on Wednesday that the prespecified non-inferiority criteria for a post-marketing safety study of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug XELJANZ® (tofacitinib) were not met.

January 27, 2021
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Brandon May