Job Trends

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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Ionis Pharmaceuticals announced that its collaboration partner, Roche, was discontinuing dosing in the Phase III GENERATION HD1 trial of tominersen in manifest Huntington’s disease (HD).
The announcement by the NIAID, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is very unusual.
Roche’s checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) hit the mark in the company’s Phase III IMpower010 trial of the drug compared to best supportive care in people with resectable early-stage lung cancer.
A giant in the world of oncology has fallen. José Baselga, whose research paved the way for new treatments in different types of cancer, died Sunday.
AstraZeneca reported that the U.S. Phase III trial of the vaccine, AZD1222, demonstrated an efficacy of 79% at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% efficacy at preventing severe disease and hospitalization.
It was a relatively quiet week in terms of clinical trial news, but there were some significant releases. Here’s a look.
Although the beginning of March was fairly slow, the end of the month shows a busy schedule for PDUFA dates for the U.S. FDA. Read on to see what’s on the calendar for this week.
On March 4, 2021, Amgen announced that they had acquired Five Prime Therapeutics for $38 per share in cash, which is an equity value of about $1.9 billion.
Merck and Eisai announced that their combination of Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda and Eisai’s Lenvima, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, significantly improved progression-free survival in advanced endometrial cancer.
Multiple pharmaceutical companies struck large licensing deals with one another this week. Here’s a look.