Poseida Therapeutics is letting go of 52 employees from its San Diego location, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice. The layoffs will take effect Oct. 1. It is unclear if the workforce reduction is in connection with the Roche acquisition.
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August 8, 2025
Poseida Therapeutics
Layoffs
Disease Area: Hematology, Multiple, Oncology, Rare Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic
August 8, 2025
Precision BioSciences
Layoffs
Delaware-based Precision BioSciences has terminated an undisclosed number of employees in order to extend its cash runway into the second half of 2027.
Disease Area: Chronic Disease, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Multiple, Neurological Diseases, Rare Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic
August 8, 2025
Iovance Biotherapeutics
Layoffs
Months after lowering its full-year guidance, Iovance Biotherapeutics has slashed its headcount by fewer than 20%, according to an Aug. 6 report from Endpoints News, which confirmed the layoffs with a company spokesperson. “This restructuring will extend our cash runway,” the spokesperson told Endpoints, adding that the layoffs will “support [its] mission to innovate, develop and deliver” its pipeline of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte cell therapies for patients who need them.
Disease Area: Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic
August 7, 2025
Bayer
Layoffs
Workforce cuts continue at Bayer, with CEO Bill Anderson announcing on the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Aug. 6 that it expects more layoffs to come. These would follow the 2,000 employees it said it was letting go during first-quarter earnings and around 11,000 total since Bayer initiated a sweeping reorganization initiative in July 2023.
Disease Area: Cardiology, Hematology, Multiple, Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule
August 7, 2025
BioNTech
Layoffs
BioNTech is laying off 90 employees across its U.S. footprint as the company plots its future in a post-COVID market.
Disease Area: Immune Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule
August 4, 2025
Merck
Layoffs
Rahway, NJ
50,001+ employees
Merck projected it could let go of about 6,000 employees as part of a multiyear process, affecting around 8% of its global workforce, as part of its recently announced cost-cutting initiative.
Disease Area: Antiviral, Cardiology, Immune Diseases, Multiple, Neurological Diseases, Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule
August 1, 2025
Moderna
Layoffs
Moderna is downsizing its workforce by 10% globally to bring headcount to under 5,000 in “a difficult moment for the company,” CEO Stéphane Bancel told employees in a note July 31.
Disease Area: Antiviral, Immune Diseases, Multiple, Oncology, Rare Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic
July 30, 2025
Merck
Layoffs
Rahway, NJ
50,001+ employees
During the company’s second quarter earnings report, Merck CEO Rob Davis said that the company was undergoing a $3 billion cut in spending, spread across administrative, sales and research and development roles. The savings amount to about $1.7 billion annually, hoping to hit the $3 billion mark by 2027.
Disease Area: Antiviral, Cardiology, Immune Diseases, Multiple, Neurological Diseases, Oncology
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule
July 30, 2025
Biogen
Negative Outlook
Cambridge, MA
5,001-10,000 employees
Drug prices are under significant scrutiny in the markets in which our products are prescribed; for example the IRA has certain provisions related to drug pricing, including the ability for the U.S. government to set prices for certain drugs in Medicare. We expect drug pricing and other health care costs will continue to be subject to political and societal pressures on a global basis. Additionally, our ability to set the price for our products varies significantly from country to country and, as a result, so can the price or reimbursement of our products. Governments may use a variety of cost-containment measures to control the cost of products, including price cuts, mandatory rebates, value-based pricing and reference pricing (i.e., referencing prices in other countries and using those reference prices to set a price). Our failure to obtain or maintain adequate coverage, pricing or reimbursement for our products could have an adverse effect on our business, reputation, revenue and results of operations, could curtail or eliminate our ability to adequately fund research and development programs for the discovery and commercialization of new products and/or could cause a decline or volatility in our stock price.
Disease Area: Immune Diseases, Multiple, Neurological Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule
July 30, 2025
Bristol Myers Squibb
Negative Outlook
Princeton, NJ
10,001-50,000 employees
We continue to evaluate the impact of the IRA on our results of operations, and it is possible that these changes may result in a material impact on our business and results of operations.
Disease Area: Rare Diseases
Drug Type: Biologic, Small Molecule