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Amgen opened a new research and development site in San Francisco Bay, while Enzo Biochem opened a 100,000 square foot laboratory and research facility in New York
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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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AstraZeneca signed a deal with Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government program to advance COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, for a monoclonal antibody cocktail.
Eli Lilly is seeking Emergency Use Authorization for its antibody therapy, LY-CoV555, for the treatment of high-risk patients with recently diagnosed mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Bristol Myers Squibb announced today that its Phase III CheckMate -816 trial met its primary endpoint of pathologic complete response (pCR) in patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer.
Only a year after buying cancer specialist Celgene for $74 billion, Bristol Myers Squibb announced it is buying cardiology company MyoKardia for about $13.1 billion. The deal is expected to close before the end of the year.
Biopharma companies wrapped up September and headed into October with plenty of clinical trial news. Here’s a look.
Merck announced that Roger M. Perlmutter, the company’s executive vice president and president of Merck Research Laboratories, was retiring effective January 1, 2021. He will be succeeded by Dean Y. Li.
PF-06939926 is currently being evaluated to determine the safety and efficacy of this gene therapy in boys with DMD.
Pfizer invested $200 million into the company for a nearly 10% stake to support the development of a checkpoint inhibitor aimed at the oncology market in China.
BMS’s ongoing Phase III randomized, double-blind, multi-center study – named CheckMate-274 – compares Opdivo against a placebo in 709 participants deemed to be at a high risk of recurrence after radical surgery.
For diabetic patients, achieving a certain “time in range” is a more realistic glucose control strategy than striving for a particular daily target, according to researchers working with Sanofi who spoke during the 56th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.