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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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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.
Career Advice
Clarity on employment terms is essential to protect careers. In this column, Kaye/Bassman’s Michael Pietrack speaks to employment attorney Howard Matalon, JD, partner at OlenderFeldman, on how to evaluate the fine print of an employment agreement.
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FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s schedule for April has several PDUFA dates scattered across the rest of the month. Here’s a look.
BioSpace takes a look at the annual compensation for the chief executive officers of vaccine developers.
Clinical-stage biotech company Celcuity announced Thursday that it had entered into a global licensing agreement with Pfizer to develop and commercialize gedatolisib, the latter company’s first-in-class PI3K/mTOR inhibitor for the treatment of breast cancer.
It was a relatively quiet week for clinical trial announcements, but there were a few standouts. Read on for more.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced topline data from the Phase III CheckMate -648 trial on Thursday, with positive results in esophageal cancer.
Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte announced today that their Phase III COV-BARRIER study of Olumiant (baricitinib) plus standard of care (SoC) compared to placebo plus SoC failed to hit statistical significance against COVID-19 for its primary endpoint.
FDA
The agency granted full approval to Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy (Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for adults with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have received two or more previous system therapies, at least one for metastatic disease.
The action data was extended by the agency to provide more time to review new data analyses submitted by Lilly, per information requests made by the FDA.
Artios Pharma Limited has entered into a global research collaboration with Novartis for the purpose of discovering and validating next-generation DDR targets and enhancing Novartis’ radioligand therapies.
In mid-March, more than a dozen countries suspended the deployment of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine after incidences of blood clots were reported.