Job Trends
BioSpace’s annual Salary Report explores the average salaries and salary trends of life sciences professionals.
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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THE LATEST
With oncology drugs clocking a disheartening 3.4% success rate, some good news in the field is always appreciated.
AstraZeneca released primary analysis that the vaccine demonstrated 76% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19, 100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalizations and 85% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 in people 65 years and older.
Moncef Slaoui was fired as chairman of the board of directors of Galvani Bioelectronics following allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct.
AbbVie has filed a legal complaint against Icelandic pharmaceutical company Alvotech for the latter’s alleged misappropriation of trade secrets involving the development of a generic version of AbbVie’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira.
Myovant Sciences and Pfizer announced positive results from the Phase III LIBERTY trial of relugolix combination therapy in women with uterine fibroids.
With the rise of mutant strains of SARS-CoV-2 and the unlikelihood of 100% compliance in getting vaccines out, investigators are focusing on developing even better vaccines and new drugs that might be able to knock back the disease. Here’s a look.
Merck Treasurer Caroline Litchfield will become the company’s new chief financial officer. She takes over the role for Robert M. Davis, who will become company president and chief executive officer upon the retirement of current CEO Kenneth C. Frazier.
Keytruda (pembrolizumab) won another regulatory victory, making it the first checkpoint inhibitor approved by the U.S. FDA for first line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic esophageal or gastroesophageal junction carcinomas regardless of PD-L1 expression.
With widespread distribution of various vaccines against COVID-19 vaccine ongoing, companies are still refining their vaccines and therapies and generating new data. Here’s a look at two recent updates.
Targeted radioligand therapy 177Lu-PSMA-617 from Novartis significantly improved overall survival (OS) and radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in patients with PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.