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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In an overwhelming vote of support, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the creation of a new department within the National Institutes of Health that is focused on biomedical innovation.
Regeneron has broken ground on a $1.8 billion expansion of its Tarrytown, NY facilities that will add at least 1,000 new full-time jobs.
According to a recent report, the New York City Metro area is home to 7% of the U.S. population but contains 10% of all U.S. biochemists and biophysicists and 12% of U.S. chemists.
Takeda announced it secured 600,000 square feet of research and development and office space in new construction at Cambridge’s Kendall Square.
Since 2020, the life sciences industry has worked to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. But one sector’s growth has far outpaced the others–the biotech industry.
Horizon Therapeutics’ Bill Rees spoke to BioSpace about the scientific discovery and collaboration potential of its new Rockville, Maryland site, which is expected to open in 2024.
In partnership with the U.S. government, Evonik Industries is investing more than $200 million to build a lipid manufacturing facility in the United States.
Pharma giant Merck announced it is expanding in both area and headcount with a new Cambridge, MA office. The company’s plan is to add 160,000 square feet and 100 new employees.