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Medicago Submits Final Vaccine Data for Canada’s COVID-19 Rolling Review
Medicago, a Canadian subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, said on December 16 that it has filed the final portion of data with Health Canada under the rolling submission of its plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed using GlaxoSmithKline’s pandemic adjuvant.…
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