Job Trends

Despite a surge in the financial markets, multiple Big Pharma companies have announced hundreds or even thousands of cuts. Experts hope for a better second half of the year.
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
AstraZeneca reported its first-quarter financial reports. As is often the case, they updated their pipeline, and indicated they had dropped a few drugs, including a promising multiple myeloma drug.
Work-at-home arrangements created to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced numerous companies in most sectors to reevaluate their work deals. This has also resulted in rethinking site locations and real estate needs. Here’s a look.
The battle against COVID-19 rages on, and other therapeutics are making their way through the clinic, including monoclonal antibody treatments and antivirals. BioSpace takes a look at some of the ongoing efforts to stem the rate of infection from the virus.
Novartis AG Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan believes that the hybrid of remote and on-site office work is the future.
What makes this particularly surprising is that in July 2020, mirikizumab hit all primary endpoints against placebo and secondary endpoints against Novartis’ Cosentyx in a Phase III OASIS-2 study of plaque psoriasis.
It was a busy week for non-COVID-19-related clinical trial news, while fairly quiet on the COVID-19 arena. Here’s a look.
The Swiss pharma giant quietly announced the cuts this morning in a breakdown of its first quarterly financial report.
FDA
Amgen announced the U.S. FDA awarded Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the bemarituzumab as a first-line treatment for certain types of gastric cancer.
Several prominent investors are urging shareholders to reject the compensation package because it shields the executive from billions of dollars in opioid-related litigation costs to the company.
FDA
Opdivo, the trade name for the generic Nivolumab, can now be used in combination with certain types of chemotherapy for initial treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma.