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Angela Gabriel

Angela Gabriel

Content Manager, Life Sciences Careers

Angela Gabriel is content manager at BioSpace. She covers the biopharma job market, job trends and career advice, and produces client content. You can reach her at angela.gabriel@biospace.com and follow her on LinkedIn.

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Layoffs
Passage Bio Cutting 55% of Staff to Help Extend Cash Runway
Passage Bio’s workforce reduction could affect about 32 people, leaving the company with 26 employees as it continues evaluating a treatment for frontotemporal dementia with granulin mutations.
January 13, 2025
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Layoffs
IGM Biosciences Lays Off 73% of Staff, Shrinks Pipeline
Staff cuts could leave IGM Biosciences with fewer than 55 employees. The company is also halting development of two bispecific antibody T cell engagers for autoimmune diseases.
January 10, 2025
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Career Advice
The Top 12 Companies Hiring in Biopharma Now
Looking for a biopharma job? Check out the BioSpace list of 12 top companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
January 9, 2025
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Layoffs
From Bad to Worse: 3 Ways Biopharmas Make Layoffs More Painful for Employees
Being laid off is bad enough. When companies mishandle the layoff process, it can make the situation even worse. Four biopharma professionals share how some employers are getting it wrong.
January 9, 2025
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Layoffs
CytomX to Cut 40% of Staff as It Updates Pipeline Priorities
CytomX’s workforce cuts could leave the biotech with fewer than 75 employees as it focuses resources on its wholly owned clinical-stage programs, most notably an antibody-drug conjugate for advanced metastatic colorectal cancer.
January 7, 2025
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Career Advice
Computational Biology, Data Science Hot Areas for Oncology R&D Hiring
As market values increase for computational biology and data science, biopharma companies are looking to hire R&D professionals in those areas. A biotech talent acquisition expert shares his insights on these in-demand roles.
January 2, 2025
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
The 5 Largest Biopharma Layoffs of 2024
While layoffs have slowed in the second half of the year, according to BioSpace data, companies including Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson are cutting hundreds or even thousands of employees in 2024.
December 19, 2024
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
The Right Fit: What BMS, Intellia Look for in Cell and Gene Therapy Talent
When hiring job candidates to work on cell and gene therapies, companies look for more than just technical skills. Talent acquisition executives from Bristol Myers Squibb and Intellia Therapeutics offer an inside look at what they want in an employee.
December 12, 2024
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Layoffs
Carisma Therapeutics to Cut 34% of Staff, Reprioritize Pipeline
Carisma’s second workforce reduction this year likely leaves the company with 44 full-time employees as turns its focus to developing therapies for fibrosis, oncology and autoimmune diseases.
December 10, 2024
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Policy
How Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Affect Biopharma Professionals’ Work Visas
Based on how President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration handled immigration, experts are concerned about how his second term will impact foreign-born biopharma professionals. Two immigration attorneys discuss what may be ahead, including increased difficulty getting work visas.
December 5, 2024
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Job Creations
Massachusetts Increases Life Sciences Investment by $500M Over 10 Years
Massachusetts’ increased investment in the life sciences industry includes boosting its life sciences tax incentive program by $10 million annually, aiding job creation in the state.
November 21, 2024
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Flexing on the Competition? Smaller Companies Get Higher Marks for Flexibility
Many biopharma professionals view smaller companies as having the best flexibility and remote work options, but that doesn’t mean their larger counterparts are failing in that area. Several professionals, including Apogee Therapeutics and Insmed executives, share their insights.
November 21, 2024
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Layoffs
Gilead and Kite Are Cutting Employees, Closing Seattle, Philadelphia Sites
Gilead’s layoffs include 72 employees at its Seattle location, which will close. Kite will shut down its Philadelphia facility. The layoffs are attributed to aligning resources with long-term strategic goals.
November 15, 2024
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Marinus Pharmaceuticals Lays Off 45% of Employees
The November layoffs are the second known workforce reduction this year for Marinus Pharmaceuticals, which previously announced disappointing Phase III results for ganaxolone in two clinical trials.
November 14, 2024
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
BioSpace Announces 2025 Best Places to Work in Biopharma
BioSpace has named 50 biopharma companies to its 2025 Best Places to Work list, including Moderna and Sutro Biopharma, whose executives share what makes their organizations special.
November 12, 2024
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