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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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Neos Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has entered into a confidential settlement and licensing agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. to resolve all ongoing litigation involving Neos’ patents protecting its Cotempla XR-ODT® extended-release orally disintegrating tablets and Teva’s Abbreviated New Drug Application filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market a generic version of that product.
Companies closed out the year with a number of appointments and hires to strengthen their leadership teams, including changes at the FDA, Melinta, CLSA, Virion, and more.
For the last couple decades, states have shown an interest in boosting the biotech industry. Massachusetts and California are dominant in biotech startups, and recently Texas expressed its hopes of being a great “third coast” for biotech clusters.
After enduring a deluge from multiple hurricanes earlier this year, the Carolinas are about to be flooded with something else far more preferable – jobs. Pharma companies are hiring for hundreds of positions, according to reports.
Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BRACAnalysis CDx® to be used by healthcare professionals to identify patients with advanced ovarian cancer who have a germline BRCA mutation (gBRCAm) and are eligible for first-line maintenance therapy with AstraZeneca’s PARP (poly ADP ribose polymerase) inhibitor, Lynparza®
Paris-based Sanofi signed the lease on two buildings yet to be built in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sanofi is the state’s largest life science employer and plans to shift 2,700 staffers into the two buildings at Cambridge Crossing.
With the year closing out, biotech and pharma companies are making adjustments to their leadership ranks and boards of directors.
Orchard Therapeutics is expanding its physical footprint in California. The U.K.-based company signed a long-term lease to build out a gene therapy manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif. The 150,000-square-foot facility will add to the company’s presence in the Bay Area.
Pfizer’s La Jolla cancer research center is set to grow by about 100 people. The pharma giant is transferring employees from a recently shuttered South San Francisco immunology site to bolster the work conducted near San Diego.