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 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.
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.
Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day navigated the company through the turbulent waters of COVID-19 last year, pushing out the very first approved treatment for treatment of the virus. His reward? A $19 million take home.
Cidara Therapeutics inked a deal worth up to $780 million with Johnson & Johnson to develop and commercialize Cidara’s candidate CD388 for the prevention and treatment of seasonal and pandemic influenza.
In order to have full control of J&J’s product, the production of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was being conducted at the same facility, will move elsewhere.