Job Trends
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Labor Market Reports
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.
BioSpace data show biopharma professionals faced increased competition for fewer employment opportunities during the second quarter of 2025, with increased pressure from further layoffs.
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Now Hiring
Job listings in the area have ticked up in the last month. These seven companies are hiring in South San Francisco right now, including scientist and clinical roles.
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Of the 25 companies receiving tax incentives in Massachusetts, 23 will add jobs outside of Boston and Cambridge. Medtronic, which is receiving the largest award, will create 220 roles in Billerica. Other recipients include AbbVie, Dyne Therapeutics and Viridian Therapeutics.
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THE LATEST
Paris-based Sanofi signed the lease on two buildings yet to be built in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sanofi is the state’s largest life science employer and plans to shift 2,700 staffers into the two buildings at Cambridge Crossing.
With the year closing out, biotech and pharma companies are making adjustments to their leadership ranks and boards of directors.
Orchard Therapeutics is expanding its physical footprint in California. The U.K.-based company signed a long-term lease to build out a gene therapy manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif. The 150,000-square-foot facility will add to the company’s presence in the Bay Area.
Pfizer’s La Jolla cancer research center is set to grow by about 100 people. The pharma giant is transferring employees from a recently shuttered South San Francisco immunology site to bolster the work conducted near San Diego.
At its San Diego site, the company plans to establish a center of excellence in screening, discovery biology, pharmacology, and small molecule process R&D, which will also include Phase I GMP manufacturing.
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Biotechs and pharmas strengthened their leadership teams with these appointments. Find news from Mersana, Foamix, Allergan, and more.
Bay Area-based genomics company 10X Genomics has become one of the fastest growing privately-held companies in the region with an earnings increase of more than 2,000 percent over a three-year period.
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Steven Fang, executive director of Invitrocue with offices in Australia, China and Singapore, took time to talk to BioSpace about the company and the Asian market for biopharma.