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Seeking to weather declining sales from its COVID-19 business in the third quarter, Pfizer is laying off approximately 200 employees at its manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Labor Market Reports
The life sciences job market continues to shift. BioSpace’s Q2 2025 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market Report is now available, offering exclusive insights into the latest hiring trends, layoffs, and workforce dynamics across the life sciences industry.
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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BioSpace takes a look at the annual compensation for the chief executive officers of vaccine developers.
Clinical-stage biotech company Celcuity announced Thursday that it had entered into a global licensing agreement with Pfizer to develop and commercialize gedatolisib, the latter company’s first-in-class PI3K/mTOR inhibitor for the treatment of breast cancer.
It was a relatively quiet week for clinical trial announcements, but there were a few standouts. Read on for more.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced topline data from the Phase III CheckMate -648 trial on Thursday, with positive results in esophageal cancer.
Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte announced today that their Phase III COV-BARRIER study of Olumiant (baricitinib) plus standard of care (SoC) compared to placebo plus SoC failed to hit statistical significance against COVID-19 for its primary endpoint.
The agency granted full approval to Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy (Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for adults with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have received two or more previous system therapies, at least one for metastatic disease.
The action data was extended by the agency to provide more time to review new data analyses submitted by Lilly, per information requests made by the FDA.
Artios Pharma Limited has entered into a global research collaboration with Novartis for the purpose of discovering and validating next-generation DDR targets and enhancing Novartis’ radioligand therapies.
In mid-March, more than a dozen countries suspended the deployment of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine after incidences of blood clots were reported.
Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day navigated the company through the turbulent waters of COVID-19 last year, pushing out the very first approved treatment for treatment of the virus. His reward? A $19 million take home.