Job Trends
BioSpace data show job postings live increased quarter over quarter, while layoffs fell year over year.
Labor Market Reports
BioSpace’s 2026 U.S. Life Sciences Employment Outlook examines the state of the biopharma workforce amid ongoing funding pressure, elevated layoffs and cautious hiring sentiment, while highlighting early signals of stabilization and cautious optimism for the year ahead.
BioSpace’s 2025 Q4 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market update highlights early signs of stabilization in biopharma hiring, with modest gains in job postings, slowing layoffs, and cautiously improving sentiment heading into 2026.
BioSpace’s Q3 2025 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market Report reveals a turbulent quarter for biopharma hiring, with record declines in job postings, rising layoffs, and cautious employer sentiment shaping the industry’s employment landscape.
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More biopharma organizations were actively recruiting at the end of 2025 than 2024, based on the new BioSpace employment outlook report. Areas in demand this year include research and development and clinical. Organizations are also prioritizing artificial intelligence hires.
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Career Advice
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Biotech and pharma companies make appointments to strengthen executive teams, with moves at Sanofi, Forma, Orchard, CLSA, Sangamo, and more.
Recipharm has announced that its 2018 International Environmental Award will be presented to Dr. Bryan Brooks, Distinguished Professor in Environmental Science and Biomedical Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Arizona is not exactly the first place one thinks of when it comes to the life sciences. But, like many states and municipalities, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona, are working hard to grow the life science industry. According to AZBio, bioscience companies in Arizona employed 25,686 people in 2016 in 1,310 individual businesses.
For years, the biggest employers of science and engineering PhDs has been academic institutions. For example, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s biennial Survey of Doctoral Recipients, academia employed 11 percent more PhDs than the private sector in 1997.
Biotech and pharma companies make changes to their executive leadership teams, with moves at Sandoz, PAREXEL, FSD, Karuna, Precision Bio, and more.
Protein forces a shift in cell type, a plasticity that promotes resistance to targeted therapy
Neos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it will report its fourth quarter and year-end 2018 financial results prior to the opening of U.S. financial markets on Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Perhaps the biggest mover and shaker announcement this week was the unexpected resignation of Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Gottlieb will leave his post later this month to spend more time with his family.
Neos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that Jerry McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer of Neos Therapeutics, will present a company overview at the upcoming Cowen & Co. 39th Annual Health Care Conference on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 11:20 a.m. ET in Boston, MA.
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