Bay­er to cut in­ter­nal drug R&D work, ax­ing hun­dreds of re­searchers while look­ing to part­ners as it un­veils plan to slash 12,000 jobs

Bay­er is push­ing ahead with plans to re­struc­ture its drug R&D busi­ness and cut 900 re­search staffers as part of a broad plan to slash a to­tal of 12,000 em­ploy­ees in a world­wide re­vamp.

De­tails on the changes in R&D — some­thing that’s been ru­mored to be in the works for months — are slim, with no word about which projects are threat­ened. Their state­ment notes 900 jobs are be­ing cut in phar­ma R&D with an­oth­er 350 jobs slashed at a Ger­man fac­tor VI­II pro­duc­tion plant. The em­pha­sis now will shift in drug R&D, re­duc­ing in-house work while look­ing to ex­ter­nal part­ners to car­ry more of the load.

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