Job Trends

In Tuesday’s first-quarter 2024 financial results, Bayer reported a slight drop in sales amid its sweeping companywide restructuring that resulted in workforce reductions, while lowering its full-year earnings outlook.
Labor Market Reports
Year-over-year BioSpace data show biopharma professionals faced increased competition for fewer employment opportunities during the first quarter of 2025.
The 9% average salary increase from 2023 to 2024 was the largest for life sciences professionals since 2021. Several factors could be behind the spike, including companies providing higher pay because bonuses and stock compensation went down.
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Although the job market did not pick up in April, layoffs were down year over year and month over month, according to BioSpace tallies. Meanwhile, Amgen, Novartis, Regeneron and Roche announced U.S. manufacturing investments that are sparking job creation.
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As COVID-19 surges to earlier pandemic levels in the U.S., federal health officials are expected to authorize a third booster shot eight months after receiving the second of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, and probably the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as well.
Eli Lilly is undertaking a strategic transformation that will result in the formation of new business units.
In a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Eli Lilly, Teva Pharmaceuticals won three and lost six patents. The patent lawsuit was over Teva’s Ajovy (fremanezumab-vfrm) to prevent migraines.
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This approval makes TICOVAC the only FDA-backed vaccine in the U.S. to protect people of all ages against the virus when visiting or living in TBE endemic regions.
There was plenty of clinical trial updates last week. Here’s a look.
Viatris executive chairman Robert Coury said that seeking new stewards for the site is the best route to ensure that people will have jobs and that the property would remain useful.
Moderna will construct a manufacturing facility in Canada to provide direct access to mRNA vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic and future viral threats and respiratory viruses.
AbbVie’s Allergan Aesthetics announced it was buying Soliton in a deal worth about $550 million. Now, the Federal Trade Commission has requested additional information about the deal.
Pfizer has made a deal with the small Locust Valley, New York-based company to manufacture and market the drug.
AbbVie has terminated its license and collaboration deal with Molecular Partners for abicipar pegol, and returned all rights to the Swiss company. Here’s more about it.