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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.
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The legal ruling, subject to appeal, protects the Swiss pharma giant’s revenue stream from the blockbuster drug Gilenya for a little bit longer.
The new research hub will be called the London Discovery Research Centre and is expected to open by 2025.
Under terms of the deal, Sanofi will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Principia for $100 per share in cash, which represents an aggregate equity value of approximately $3.68 billion.
Bristol Myers Squibb plunked down $475 million for the exclusive license to Dragonfly Therapeutics’ interleukin-12 (IL-12) investigational immunotherapy program.
Celleron Therapeutics signed a licensing agreement with Roche for the worldwide rights to cancer drug emactuzumab, a monoclonal antibody directed against colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1R) expressed on macrophages.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced positive data from two separate Phase III clinical trials of its checkpoint inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab).
A Genentech investigational ulcerative colitis treatment etrolizumab posted mixed results in its late-stage study program in patients who have moderate or severe active forms of the disease.
It was a moderately busy week for clinical trial news, with some particularly interesting announcements related COVID-19 vaccine trials. Here’s a look.
Biogen and Denali Therapeutics inked a binding deal to co-develop and co-commercialize Denali’s small molecule inhibitors of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) for Parkinson’s disease.
Eliquis generic was approved by FDA to prevent strokes, blood clots etc. But there were some legal issues which recently got stave off. Know more about it here.