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Posted by cliffmz 27 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Financial | Tags: biotech opinion

It seems that every day a new American industry asks the US government for a bailout because of impending financial exigency. That said, I was somewhat surprised to learn today that the biotechnology read more »
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Is the Recession Going to Kill Biotech?

Posted by cliffmz 33 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Financial

Recently, I have come across posts on blogs and websites reporting on lay offs and cost-cutting measures that are taking place at some biotechnology companies. A good example of this is a post that a read more »
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Outsourcing Pharmaceutical R&D : Bio Job Blog

Posted by cliffmz 48 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Corporate | Tags: outsourcing jobs pharma biotech

As you all know by now, American pharmaceutical companies have been intermittently laying off thousands of employees for the past two years or so. Many of the employees who have lost their jobs are R read more »
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces $2.5 Billion in Cuts and Layoffs

Posted by cliffmz 54 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: bms layoffs downsizing job loss

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) made a presentation this morning at the Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference that showed the company plans on saving an additional $2.5 billion in “productivity initiatives. read more »
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New Technology: Using Google to Track the Flu

Posted by cliffmz 57 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: google technology flu tracker

No matter what you may think of Google, you gotta love the brilliance and innovative moxy of the guys who run that company. In today’s New York Times, there was a story about a new web tool called Go read more »
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The One that Got Away: Lilly to Buy ImClone

Posted by cliffmz 92 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: pharma biotech acquisition

After months of melodrama and acrimonious exchanges between Jim Cornelius and Carl Icahn, Eli Lilly, not Bristol-Myers Squibb, will acquire ImClone and gain access to the multibillion dollar Erbitux read more »
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Pfizer to Cut Jobs and Refocus Research Efforts

Posted by cliffmz 98 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: pharma layoffs downsizing

Pfizer announced that it will cut R&D jobs and abandon its research efforts in the areas of cardiovascular diseases, cholesterol management, osteoporosis, anemia and liver and muscle diseases. The co read more »
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Novartis Contractor Ran a Prostitution Ring from Work

Posted by cliffmz 154 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: pharma

A contractor who worked for Novartis was charged with running a prostitution ring from his desk at the drug maker’s facility in Hanover, NJ. Luckily (for Novartis anyway) the actual ’services’ were p read more »
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Congrats to INSMED...I Think! : Bio Job Blog

Posted by cliffmz 180 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: follow-on biologics biosimilars g-csf

Richmond Va-based INSMED, a US-based follow-on biologics manufacturer, posted a press release on its website entitled: “Insmed Announces First Human Bioequivalence Data for a Follow-on Biologic by a read more »
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And the Award for the Pharma/Biotech Company that Spent the Most Money Lobbying Congress in 2007 Goes to.... : Bio Job Blog

Posted by cliffmz 196 days ago (http://www.biojobblog.com)
Category: Blogs | Tags: pharma awards lobbying

Last year was a banner year for the pharmaceutical lobby (the largest in Washington DC). It spent over $168 million to inform Congress about issues that its members thought were in the best interest read more »
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