Top Biotech Companies Hiring in Maryland: Summer 2022 Edition

Despite the U.S. biotech sector’s recent stock market downturn and a spate of layoffs, multiple BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) companies are bucking this bear market with strong growth and active hiring plans. 

Here’s our Summer 2022 Roundup of top Maryland life sciences companies with more than 10 active job listings across a wide range of fields and experience levels. 

For a wider window into who’s hiring now, check out the BioBuzz Job Board search engine, which is a free resource for job seekers looking to enter the biotech industry or take that next step in their life sciences careers. 

ATCC, Gaithersburg, Maryland and Manassas, Virginia

American Type Culture Collection, best known as ATCC, is a global biological resource center that has supported life sciences research for nearly 100 years. It’s fair to say that just about anybody that has worked in a research lab has used their products at some point over their career. 

ATCC has continued to innovate across the organization and has expanded their products and services to meet the evolving needs of researchers driven by the advancements of new technologies.  Late last year ATCC won a $545M NIAID contract to support the Clinical Research Division of Intramural Research and Vaccine Research Center with rapid response capabilities to infectious disease issues. Just this year they were also awarded three grants valued at over $5.5 million by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

ATCC is actively hiring for around 50 positions at its Gaithersburg facility and Manassas HQ driven by Company growth, the new & expanding government contracts, and their COVID-related work. They are hiring across a wide range of fields and experience levels including R&D, Government Contracts, Supply Chain/Manufacturing, with a few corporate jobs in Finance, IT, HR. By the end of the year, they expect to hire up to 75+ new employees.

You can view ATCC’s career opportunities here.    

GSK, Rockville, Maryland and Other Global Locations

GSK (NYSE: GSK) is one of the most successful biopharma companies in the world with locations around the globe and a deep, varied pipeline of potential drug candidates. GSK recently split off the consumer side of its business, launching a spin-off company named Haleon, which is now the largest standalone consumer health business in the world. 

The company employs approximately 15,000 employees in the U.S. and is focused on developing and commercializing innovative vaccines and specialty medicines to prevent and treat disease. GSK’s R&D focuses on the science of the immune system, human genetics, and advanced technologies in four therapeutic areas: infectious diseases, HIV, oncology, and immunology.

GSK has two locations in Maryland that are actively seeking outstanding people: the Rockville Biopharm Manufacturing Site and the Vaccines R&D Headquarters. GSK is consistently recruiting throughout the year as the company strives to bring together the best and brightest minds to be ambitious for patients and help make a lasting impact on the health of millions of people across the world.

GSK’s two Maryland sites currently have over 100 openings across a wide range of disciplines and levels of experience. For the Biopharm site, GSK is looking for new team members in production, and quality as well as for its automation/digital, data, and analytics teams.

You can view GSK’s Rockville opportunities here.  

ABL, Rockville, Maryland

Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, or ABL, is a rapidly growing contract manufacturing and research organization that is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The company delivers best-in-class GMP manufacturing and immunology solutions for gene therapies, oncolytics, vaccines, and other immunotherapeutics to life science organizations and government agencies.

The company, founded in the U.S. in 1961, is on a mission to help life science companies bring more life-saving products to patients by efficiently advancing vaccines and therapies from clinical development to commercialization. ABL is well-positioned to achieve its mission with an outstanding team located at multiple sites and multiple cGMP facilities in the U.S. and Europe.

The Rockville facility has three GMP branches: upstream, downstream, and fill/finish. The site offers robust training opportunities via hands-on experience, established standard operating procedures, and a commitment to continual improvement.

ABL currently has approximately 14 job opportunities at its Rockville location across a wide range of disciplines and career experience levels.

You can view ABL’s openings here.

Catalent, Baltimore, Harmans and Gaithersburg, Maryland, plus Global Locations

Catalent (NYSE: CTLT) is a global organization that provides comprehensive suite solutions to support the entire lifecycle of the biopharma industry. Catalent purchased the well-regarded BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) company Paragon Bioservices in 2019 for $1.2B and has continued to grow its Maryland footprint in the years since. 

The company now operates three gene therapy facilities in Maryland. The University of Maryland (UMD) BioPark facility in Baltimore specializes in upstream and downstream process development of viral vectors for clinical applications. Catalent also has a 50,000 square foot gene therapy facility in Rockville that was purchased from Novavax in 2019. In addition, the organization has a 200,000 square foot, FDA-licensed, state-of-the-art cGMP manufacturing facility for gene therapies at its Harmans/BWI campus.

Catalent continues to grow and currently has approximately 135 career opportunities across its Maryland locations. 

You can view Catalant’s job openings here.

Kite Pharma, a Gilead Company, Frederick, Maryland and Global Locations

Kite Pharma (NASDAQ: KITE) is a global leader in cell therapy treatments for cancer with offices around the world. 

The company recently received FDA approval for its state-of-the art CAR T-cell manufacturing facility located in Frederick County, Maryland. As the cell therapy leader, Kite has more FDA-approved CAR T-cell indications than any other company.

Kite’s Frederick cell manufacturing facility employs more than 200 staff and is still growing. Currently, Kite has approximately 36 job openings at its Frederick, Maryland cell therapy manufacturing site. 

Kite offers dedicated, talented life sciences professionals of all levels an opportunity not only to help push the industry forward, but to also join a culture that’s passionate about patients and its mission to cure cancer. Kite, and its parent company Gilead, are deeply committed to building and maintaining diversity among its workforce. Kite also won Biobuzz’s Workforce Champion Award in 2021. 

Check out BioBuzz’s Job Board for all of Kite’s current opportunities or Kite’s website. 

Miltenyi Biotec, Gaithersburg, Maryland and Multiple Global Locations

The Miltenyi mission is to advance scientific understanding and medicine by providing solutions for cell and gene therapy and biomedical research. The company believes that biomedical science is the strongest driver to change the way we treat cancer, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders. The company is helping to drive the revolution that is reinventing medicine and advancing it to a level that will make cancer and other serious diseases history.

Founded in Germany in 1989, Miltenyi has played an important role in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of products that empower the advancement of biomedical research and enable cell and gene therapy for three decades. The company has approximately 4,000 employees across multiple global locations, including its office in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

The Germany-based company recently made that goal more attainable by moving its North American headquarters to Gaithersburg and opening a new 5,000-square-foot building in the Maryland location. The expansion of its Clopper Road facility will translate into a substantial increase in hiring for roles in manufacturing, quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and research and development (R&D).

With the goal to fill 14 manufacturing positions by September and the rest of the 50+ open roles across divisions at the Gaithersburg site by the end of 2022—Miltenyi Biotec expects its Maryland employee tally to total 400 by 2023.

The potential for extensive growth at this site is more advanced than traditional environments, given the opportunity for seamless travel and communication cultivated between the multiple U.S. and European Miltenyi Biotec locations. And considering the company just brought four drug substance areas online and expects to release two more this year, building a sustainable manufacturing team is crucial. With this growth in mind, Miltenyi Biotec is looking for dynamic, team-oriented, driven, and initiative-focused personnel to propel the company toward its ambitious goals.

The Gaithersburg location is home to Miltenyi’s head office and central logistics hub in North America. Miltenyi’s Gaithersburg location currently has over 50 job openings. 

Check out Miltenyi’s job opportunities here.

REGENXBIO, Rockville, Maryland

REGENXBIO (NASDAQ: RGNX) is a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal, neurodegenerative, and metabolic diseases. The company’s proprietary NAV Platform was invented to discover next-generation adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors to propel the discovery of new therapies across a wide range of disease areas, including rare/orphan diseases. REGENXBIO has exclusive rights to more than 100 novel AAV vectors and more than 100 patents and patent applications for AAV vectors worldwide. 

REGENXBIO recently opened a brand new, state-of-the-art gene therapy manufacturing facility in Rockville, Maryland. This new $100M, 132,000 square foot good manufacturing practice (GMP) facility “…will enable the company to boost manufacturing of NAV Technology-based adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors at scales up to 2,000 liters,” according to the company’s press release. As a result of this expansion, REGENXBIO has been hiring at a rapid pace over the past few years and 2022 has continued this hiring trend. 

The company currently has around 23 job opportunities that can be found here. 

Emergent BioSolutions, Gaithersburg and Baltimore, Maryland, Multiple Global Locations

Emergent (NYSE: EBS) has a mission to enhance and protect life. With 11 marketing products, including multiple anthrax countermeasures and the opioid overdose treatment NARCAN, Emergent employs more than 2,400 staff worldwide and is also a leading CDMO. With a robust pipeline that includes multiple Phase 3 product candidates and a strong portfolio of government contracts, the company is positioned well for the future. 

To help make that exciting future a reality, Emergent is actively recruiting new talent to join its growing team. The company has hired about 400 new team members with plans to hire 700+ people by the end of the year. Globally, Emergent has approximately 150 job openings. You can check out Emergent’s current Maryland 100+ job openings here primarily across engineering, quality, and R&D.  

Becton, Dickinson (BD), Hunt Valley and Baltimore, Maryland Plus Global Locations

BD (NYSE: BDX) is a 125-year-old company that is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world with some 65,000 employees located in 50 countries. The company’s mission is to “…advance the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care.” BD has three distinct business units: medicine, life sciences, and interventional.

In 2021, BD entered into a contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) worth $24.7M (with options to extend the contract value to $40.3M) to develop a range of COVID-19 combination diagnostic tests to be deployed at labs, hospitals and point-of-care facilities.  

According to the BD website, the company’s 70,000 team members are all pulling in the same direction to “…improve the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to better diagnose disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues.”

BD was also named the Maryland Tech Council’s Life Sciences Company of the Year for 2022. Innovation and new growth have led to BD hiring approximately 700 associates this year. The company has the most opportunities in Account management, direct sales, global marketing management, production/operations, quality control, and technical services.

The company has multiple locations in Maryland that are hiring. The company currently has nearly 100 job openings that you can view here. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Multiple Maryland Locations, Global Organization

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is a world leader in serving the scientific community through a variety of divisions across an array of fields. The company’s mission is to “…enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.” Thermo Fisher provides pharmaceutical services through various divisions, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

The company was formed in 2006 and currently has approximately 80,000 employees worldwide. Thermo Fisher has a significant presence in the BioHealth Capital Region and is actively hiring for approximately 275 job openings across multiple Maryland locations.

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