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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 LATEST
Pfizer has its eye on supporting innovation in the biotech industry to support small and medium-sized companies working in indications that fall under Pfizer’s core areas of focus.
FDA
AbbVie won first-of-its-kind approval for a non-surgical treatment, Oriahnn, aimed at treating heavy menstrual bleeding due to uterine fibroids, a common non-cancerous tumor, in pre-menopausal women.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology 2020 meeting was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As usual, there were literally hundreds of abstracts, posters and presentations. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
The two companies were able to get their antibody candidate into the clinic within two months of announcing their collaboration in response to the global pandemic.
In the lead-up to the ASCO Annual Meeting, companies were presenting some of their trial data, while other companies were presenting news related to COVID-19 studies. Here’s a look.
Ironwood and AbbVie said a Phase II trial assessing the drug candidate MD-7246, a delayed-release formulation of Linzess, did not meet its primary or key secondary endpoints.
FDA
Tauvid is the first and only approved diagnostic agent for imaging tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the brain.
After four years as head of Sanofi’s vaccines division, David Loew is departing the pharma giant to take on a new role – chief executive officer of Paris-based Ipsen, effective July 1.
Numerous biopharmaceutical companies and researchers are presenting research and clinical trial results, and many have been announcing their plans for several weeks.
FDA
Bristol Myers Squibb is doing its best to claim market share in the checkpoint inhibitor space and over the past month, the company is pushing its way forward with a pair of regulatory approvals in lung cancer.