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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
Encoded Cuts 29% of Workforce to Extend Cash Runway, Advance Pipeline
Encoded’s layoffs will mostly affect its technology and early-stage research and development functions. The move is expected to keep the biotech operational well into 2026.
February 13, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
Job Ghosting, Ghost Jobs Top Job Hunt Complaints, BioSpace Finds
A BioSpace LinkedIn poll found that job ghosting and ghost jobs are the biggest pet peeves for applicants now. Recruitment Manager Greg Clouse offers advice on dealing with them.
February 13, 2025
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5 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Job Trends
2024 Q4 Job Market Report: Biopharma Job Postings Slowed as Layoffs Continued
Year-over-year BioSpace data show there were fewer job postings live on the website in the fourth quarter of 2024, and the decrease was higher than the third quarter’s drop.
February 12, 2025
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3 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Inventiva to Halve Its Workforce, Shift Focus to MASH Candidate
French biotech Inventiva’s layoffs and pipeline shift are expected to help keep the company operational into the second half of 2026.
February 11, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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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.
February 6, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Hiring Outlook: Despite Challenges, January Brings Optimism for Job Market
Most employers are expecting to hire this year, according to BioSpace data and Recruitment Manager Greg Clouse, who noted that companies are looking to do more than just replace people lost to turnover.
February 6, 2025
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3 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
ImmunityBio Continues Trimming Workforce While Working to Advance Anktiva
ImmunityBio will part with 10 employees this quarter. Last fall, it cut 31 employees. The moves come as the biotech works to advance Anktiva in non-small cell lung cancer.
January 31, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Business
Chicago Area’s Life Sciences Scene Continues Making an Impression
While the Chicago metropolitan area is not a major life sciences hub, a recent Cushman & Wakefield report predicts the Chicago market should be a growth spot in the coming years. Chicago Biomedical Consortium and COUR Pharmaceuticals executives share what makes the area a hot spot.
January 30, 2025
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Atara to Cut Half Its Workforce Following FDA-Related Setbacks
Atara Biotherapeutics’ layoffs could leave the biotech with around 80 employees. The cuts follow news that the FDA rejected Ebvallo, a T cell therapy approved in Europe for a transplant-related blood cancer, and placed a clinical hold on the company’s active drug applications.
January 28, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
Outside Looking In: Getting a Job Still Challenging, BioSpace Report Finds
Landing a job remains challenging for life sciences professionals, according to a new BioSpace report. While 59% of surveyed organizations are actively recruiting, nearly half of unemployed survey respondents had been out of work for at least six months, and 20% of surveyed employers expect to lay off employees this year.
January 28, 2025
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4 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Layoffs
Allakos Will Axe 75% of Workforce, Drop Hives Candidate
Following disappointing clinical trial results for AK006, Allakos will cut its workforce down to under 20 employees as it explores strategic alternatives.
January 27, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Career Advice
M&A Survival Guide: 6 Tips for Making the Most of a Stressful Situation
M&As are stressful for multiple reasons, including role changes and getting laid off when staffs combine. Two talent experts share tips for navigating the transition period of your company’s merger or acquisition.
January 23, 2025
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6 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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Job Trends
8 Companies Hiring in New Jersey
Looking for a biopharma job in New Jersey? Check out the BioSpace list of eight companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.
January 23, 2025
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2 min read
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Angela Gabriel
Job Trends
Bonus Episode: Q4 2024 Job Market Update
In this bonus episode, BioSpace’s vice president of marketing ⁠Chantal Dresner⁠ and careers editor ⁠Angela Gabriel⁠ take a look at Q4 job market performance and what we expect to see ahead.
January 21, 2025
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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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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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1 min read
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Angela Gabriel
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