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The ax is falling on more pharma R&D jobs. Earlier today, Derek Lowe brought
word from readers that research jobs were being cut at Bristol-Myers Squibb
. The company just confirmed that “fewer than 100″ positions were being
eliminated in the U.S. Here’s the official word from BMS:
“Bristol-Myers Squibb is strategically evolving the company’s Research
focus to ensure the delivery of a sustainable, innovative drug pipeline in
areas of serious unmet medical need and potential commercial growth.
The Company is aligning and building internal capabilities to support the
evolution of its Research focus. In doing so, certain research areas will be
streamlined and there will be investment and growth in other areas. This
strategic evolution has resulted in job eliminations in the short term to
allow longer term investment. This initiative will result in a reduction in
employee headcount of fewer than 100 people in an R&D organization of more
than 7,000 employees. Impacted employees were notified on August 1, 2012 and
transitions will take place within two weeks of this date.”
The company will not confirm whether they are, as Derek’s sources suggest,
in the metabolic disease area or limited to New Jersey. If indeed they are
all coming out of its N.J. labs, today’s announcement will add to
challenging times for the state. As we wrote last month after Roche
announced plans to shutter its Nutley site, costing some 1,000 jobs, the
number of drug industry jobs in N.J. fell by 22.4% between 2007 to 2010,
according to a report by Battelle and the Biotechnology Industry
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