San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMLN]]) has cut 60 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, according to a recent story in the Union-Tribune. The cuts happened within a few specific areas of the company, including R&D, spokeswoman Anne Erickson said. “The R&D changes do not signal a move away from research at Amylin,” Erickson said in an e-mail. “Rather, we are changing how we source innovation and will look to both internal and external sources to find ways to continue to fulfill our mission of bringing innovative medicines to patients.”
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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