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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As part of a strategic reorganization intended in part to support the ongoing launch of its postpartum depression drug, Sage Therapeutics is cutting more than 165 employees.
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Evonik’s latest layoffs are tied to discontinuing production of keto acids in Hanau, Germany, by the end of next year. Earlier this year, news broke the company is also cutting up to 2,000 employees globally by 2026.
Turnstone is shifting resources to focus on clinical advancement of its selected tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy as three C-suite members exit their roles.
Astellas is opening a second location of Universal Cells, its wholly owned subsidiary, at a research campus in Japan and transferring 12 roles from Universal’s Seattle location.
Relay Therapeutics is cutting its workforce to help streamline its research organization as it looks to complete its first large-scale, pivotal clinical trial.