Toshifumi Tada, Medicago CEO

Plant-based Covid-19 vac­cine de­vel­op­er Med­ica­go lay­ing off 60+ at North Car­oli­na plant

Med­ica­go had been look­ing at, among oth­er things, a plant-based vac­cine for Covid-19. But those plans aren’t go­ing in the di­rec­tion Med­ica­go want­ed to.

Med­ica­go’s US sub­sidiary Med­ica­go USA filed a WARN no­tice Wednes­day in North Car­oli­na, say­ing that 62 em­ploy­ees at its man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ty in Durham will be out of a job with­in two months.

Med­ica­go CEO Toshi­fu­mi Ta­da, who just re­cent­ly joined the biotech ear­li­er this year, told End­points News via email that:

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