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Pharma & Biotech: Hiring, Funding And Leadership Signals

Every update we hold from an employer we have filed under Pharma & Biotech: 914 updates from 77 sources, across 767 employers. Each one links to the filing or report that makes the claim. These are counts of documents we have read, so they measure what we have found and can cite, not everything that happened. They also include the routine officer filings the tracker sets aside by default, so its figure for this place is lower than the one above.

Covering 1 Jan 2026 to 14 Aug 2026

914 updates tracked
767 employers
77 sources
$10.3B disclosed funding

$10,347,872,751 disclosed across 304 funding updates. Totals cover the 290 of 304 funding updates that state a US dollar amount. We leave out amounts in other currencies rather than convert them at a rate nobody published.

Employers We Hold The Most On

Ranked by how many updates we hold, then by how many independent sources are behind them. That is a measure of our own coverage rather than of an employer's size. Each name links to everything we hold for that employer.

What The Updates Are About

Leadership moves 587
Growing and expanding 309
Ways of working 14
Pay and benefits 4

Countries In This Industry

A name with a page of its own links to it. One we do not hold enough on for a page of its own links to the tracker filtered to it, which shows every update behind the count.

Recent Updates

The 12 most recent, in the order the tracker itself uses. Every line links to the document it came from. See all 914 updates for Pharma & Biotech.

  1. 2026-08-14
    Headcount Not Stated Leadership moves

    BeyondSpring Reports Second-Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update

    BeyondSpring's leadership transition aligns the organization around focused advancement of the DUBLIN-4 program in NSCLC post-ICI.

    BeyondSpring Inc. · United States · Official Filing · SEC EDGAR

  2. 2026-08-13
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    Khartis Therapeutics Raises $50M To Advance Oral Immunology Drugs

    Khartis Therapeutics raised $50M in Series B for oral immunology drugs. The announcement does not disclose hiring plans; watch its careers page for pharma and biotech roles.

    Khartis Therapeutics · $50M raised · News Report · Ventureburn · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  3. 2026-08-11
    Headcount Not Stated Leadership moves

    Bicara Therapeutics Announces Strategic Leadership Transitions

    Bicara Therapeutics transitions executive leadership in Boston, with Ryan Cohlhepp becoming CEO and Claire Mazumdar moving to Vice Chair of the Board, effective January 2027.

    Bicara Therapeutics Inc. · Boston, United States · Official Filing · SEC EDGAR

  4. 2026-08-10
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    Replimune bondit après une levée de fonds de 150 millions de dollars pour un médicament contre le cancer de la

    Replimune raised $150M for cancer-drug development in the US. The announcement does not disclose hiring plans; watch its careers page for biotech roles.

    Replimune · France · $150M raised · News Report · Boursorama · archived copy

  5. 2026-08-10
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    Prana Therapies, Inc. raised $40.2M in a private placement

    Prana Therapies has $40.2M of new capital in Encinitas. The filing does not disclose hiring plans; watch its careers page for biotech roles.

    Prana Therapies, Inc. · United States · $40.2M raised · Official Filing · SEC EDGAR (Form D)

  6. 2026-07-31
    Adding Roles Ways of working

    Resilience and Lilly invest $750M to scale Cincinnati medicine output

    Resilience and Lilly's $750M investment to scale GLP-1 injectables manufacturing in Cincinnati creates 400 onsite manufacturing roles, concentrating pharma biotech hiring in contract production capacity rather than R&D.

    Resilience and Lilly · Cincinnati, United States · 400 roles · $750M raised · News Report · Manufacturing Dive · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  7. 2026-07-31
    Headcount Not Stated Leadership moves

    XORTX Announces Director Resignation

    Anthony Giovinazzo leaves the board of XORTX Therapeutics, a Calgary-based pharma and biotech firm.

    XORTX Therapeutics Inc. · Calgary, Canada · News Report · Financial Post · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  8. 2026-07-30
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    Ractigen Therapeutics Raises Over $31M in Funding

    Ractigen Therapeutics has $31M of new capital. The announcement does not disclose hiring plans; watch its careers page for pharma and biotech roles.

    Ractigen Therapeutics · $31M raised · News Report · FinSMEs · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  9. 2026-07-30
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    J&J lines up $2.58B option to buy Sail, Flagship's in vivo CAR-T biotech

    Johnson & Johnson is paying $785 million upfront for an option to buy Flagship's in vivo CAR-T biotech Sail Biomedicines, expanding its cell therapy pipeline, but the announcement names no hiring plans.

    Johnson & Johnson · United States · $785M raised · News Report · Endpoints News · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  10. 2026-07-29
    Headcount Not Stated Ways of working

    GSK announces plan to axe UK Stevenage R&D hub, moving to Cambridge

    GSK is closing its Stevenage R&D hub and relocating operations to Cambridge, affecting research roles in the UK.

    GSK · London, United Kingdom · News Report · European Biotechnology Magazine · archived copy

  11. 2026-07-29
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    LB Pharmaceuticals capta US$ 150 milhões em esforços restritos

    LB Pharmaceuticals raised US$150 million in a restricted offering for pharma and biotech development, a stage where funds typically flow into research and development headcount. The announcement does not disclose hiring plans.

    LB Pharmaceuticals · Brazil · $150M raised · News Report · Investing.com Brasil - Finanças, Câmbio e Investimentos · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

  12. 2026-07-29
    Headcount Not Stated Growing and expanding

    Core Biomedicine Raises $21M Series A to Advance Precision Oncology Pipeline

    Core Biomedicine raised $21M in Series A funding to advance its precision oncology pipeline in pharma and biotech, a stage where headcount goes into research and development. The announcement names no roles.

    Core Biomedicine · $21M raised · News Report · citybiz · No archive snapshot yet. We re-check weekly; next check by Aug 23.

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