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MassBio Industry Snapshot Shows Massachusetts-Headquartered Biopharma Companies Raised $4.3 Billion in First Quarter of 2021
MassBio today released its 2021 Industry Snapshot, which showed incredible growth across the life sciences industry
BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Aug. 20
Biopharma and life sciences companies strengthen their leadership teams and boards with these Movers & Shakers.
MassBio Industry Snapshot Predicts 40,000 New Biopharma Jobs Over the Next 10 Years
The Bay State biopharma industry continues to boom, even during the height of a global pandemic that has caused an economic downturn in other business sectors.
Canada Gaining in the Global War for Biotech Talent
Toronto saw the biggest growth in technology jobs of any North American city between 2015 and 2020, while Vancouver, British Columbia also made the top five.
Alzheimer's biotech comes under attack as petition calls for trial halt, data audit — and it's fighting back
Little Cassava Sciences has complete faith in its experimental Alzheimer’s drug. Ever since pivoting away from a four-time reject analgesic (and from its former identity as Pain ...
Prominent MIT scientist, biotech founder David Sabatini is thrown out of the Whitehead and HHMI following sexual harassment probe
David Sabatini, who played a key role in the launch of several biotechs in the Boston/Cambridge hub, has been sacked by the Whitehead Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
How COVID-19 is Still Changing the Biopharma Industry, Now and in the Future
The development of COVID-19 vaccines, which took only months from the initial gene sequencing to the time shots were in arms, was the biggest story of 2020 alongside the pandemic itself.
Massachusetts biopharmas claim state's 3rd-largest VC funding year on record in a single quarter at $4.3B
If you're going to call one state home, make it Massachusetts, says a host of biopharma startups that raised an eye-popping $4.3 billion in venture capital cash in just one quarter. ...