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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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Moderna has fully enrolled its late-stage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trial by hitting its target of 30,000 participants. More than one-third of this cohort includes minority participants.
Roche Canada is making a $500 million investment to expand its Canadian pharmaceutical headquarters in Ontario, which the company said will bring up to 500 new full-time jobs to the region over the next five years.
Kite, a Gilead company, is building a franchise, not just a brand, on the promise of its CAR-T cell therapies.
INCOG BioPharma Services, is a biopharmaceutical manufacturing services startup that will be establishing a manufacturing plant soon. You can get more details here.
Merck reported results from two more Phase III trials of V114, it’s 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
New data presented at the IASLC 2020 North America Conference on Lung Cancer shows a combination of Keytruda with other medications has a positive impact on non-small cell lung cancer.
FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has several PDUFA dates for the rest of October, although two of them were already approved. Here’s a look.
Eli Lilly is betting on a new approach to axonal degeneration, announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Disarm Therapeutics, a privately-held biotech company committed to solving this mystery.
FDA
Regeneron announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Inmazeb, a three-antibody cocktail to treat Ebola infections in adults and children.
To date, all the major clinical trials of vaccines against COVID-19 have been in adults.