Job cuts at Amgen, Takeda and Vertex
Takeda reorganising following Ariad takeover, while Amgen and Vertex move staff to Cambridge and San Francisco hubs
Pharmaceutical firms Amgen, Takeda and Vertex are all restructuring and cutting jobs. The cuts continue the trend of pharmaceutical firms aggregating in the Boston–Cambridge and San Francisco areas.
Amgen has confirmed it is moving around 100 roles in its US discovery research and translational sciences groups, from Thousand Oaks near Los Angeles to San Francisco and Cambridge, US.