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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THE LATEST
It was a moderately busy mid-summer week for clinical trial news. Here’s a look.
Master planning for the site is slated to begin in 2022 and will reportedly create one of the largest life sciences cluster in Europe.
Thermo Fisher Scientific continues to open new facilities that enable it to meet increasing manufacturing demands.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched a new collaborative unit that aims to standardize the metabolomics community’s efforts as it engages in more large-scale cohort studies and clinical research.
No specific financial details were disclosed other than to say the $1 billion figure was linked to various development and commercial milestones.
In its 2Q2021 Clinical Report, BioSpace highlights drugs that were greenlit for clinical studies, faced clinical and regulatory hurdles and some who saw regulatory wins.
The license and collaboration agreement center on orelabrutinib, an oral small molecule BTKi characterized by its high selectivity and the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier.
Approximately 100 preliminary reports of GBS have been identified out of 12.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
HHS issued their announcement, saying, “Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time.”
Sparx Therapeutics is expanding its operations into Yangzhou, China, with the imminent construction of a 1.2 million square foot facility for its commercial production.