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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.
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For diabetic patients, achieving a certain “time in range” is a more realistic glucose control strategy than striving for a particular daily target, according to researchers working with Sanofi who spoke during the 56th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
Tagrisso demonstrated an 82% reduction in the risk of central nervous system recurrence or death. The safety and tolerability of the product in the Phase III trial was consistent with previous trials in the metastatic EGFRm NSCLC setting.
Swiss pharma giant Roche acquired Ireland’s Inflazome and its NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors aimed at multiple inflammatory diseases for €380 million (about $451 million) in an upfront payment.
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Virtual Congress 2020 was this weekend, with numerous companies presenting clinical trial data and updates.
The overall survival benefit of Lynparza was shared this weekend, four months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it as a treatment for prostate cancer.
It was a fairly busy week for clinical trial announcements, with some important and interesting news about COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, as well as numerous stories about non-COVID-19 studies.
Johnson & Johnson has become the next big pharma player to be accused in New York State’s Department of Financial Services opioid industry probe.