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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