Layoffs at BioNTech
- Layoff events
- 4
- verified and sourced
- Roles reported
- 2,038
- roles in total
- Announced between
- Jun 2025 to May 2026
- Reported by
- BioNTech, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tagesschau, The Straits Times, CNA, Maryland Department of Labor, Fierce Biotech, and BioSpace
This page records what we could verify and source. It is not a complete record of every job cut at BioNTech: a layoff nobody published and nobody sent us is a layoff that is not on this page.
| Company | What happened | Roles reported | Share of staff | Where | Announced | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BioNTech |
Site closure
BioNTech announced plans to exit manufacturing operations at several sites; after the buyer search failed, the closures of Idar-Oberstein, Marburg and Tübingen were confirmed, affecting approximately 1,800 employees. |
1,800 | Not known | Idar-Oberstein + Marburg + Tübingen, Germany | ||
| BioNTech |
Site closure
BioNTech announced that it would close its Tuas manufacturing plant by the end of February 2027, affecting the site's 85 employees. |
85 | 100% | Tuas Biomedical Park manufacturing facility, Singapore, Singapore | ||
| BioNTech |
Restructuring
BioNTech confirmed a further 90 U.S. layoffs across Cambridge and Gaithersburg as part of a strategic pipeline and organizational alignment. |
90 | Not known | Cambridge, Massachusetts + Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States | ||
| BioNTech |
Pipeline setback
BioNTech filed a Maryland WARN notice for 63 layoffs at its Gaithersburg cell-therapy operation after ending development of BNT211 in a testicular-cancer setting and winding down manufacturing there. |
63 | Not known | 930 and 948 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, United States |
Where this comes from
Every cut listed for BioNTech was entered by a person who checked it against a filing or a named report. Nothing is scraped and nothing publishes itself. What is not here is what we have not verified, not what did not happen.
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