Clinical research company PPD is eliminating 270 jobs in North America, almost 5% of its 5,800-person workforce. The firm blames the global economic meltdown and…
Medco Health Solutions will hire 160 people at its automated pharmacy complex under construction in Whitestown, Indiana. The $150 million complex has been under construction…
CoreRx is expanding its pharmaceutical development headquarters and moving it to a new Hillsborough County, Florida facility, creating 55 jobs over the next three years.…
Broomfield, Colorado-based biotech firm ARCA Biopharma has cut 40 employees. Those laid off will get severance packages. ARCA Biopharma, formerly Nuvelo, is a biopharmaceutical company…
Progenics Pharmaceuticals cut 10% of its workforce, eliminated salary increases for senior management, and reduced bonuses for all employees. The firm has also cut expenditures…
Amylin, which manufactures the diabetes drug Byetta through a partnership with Eli Lilly, will cut 200 sales jobs as that division in restructured. Byetta sales…
Seattle, Washington's ZymoGenetics will cut 161 employees and discontinue research on cancer treatments. The firm will continue to market its only approved product, the blood-clotting…
Bristol-Myers Squibb will cut 100 jobs from its Syracuse, New York operations by the end of 2010. The pharmaceutical company is consolidating its Drug Safety…