カナダ掲示板 (フリー) - No.255134
Medicargoについて知ろう カナダ産のワクチン 日本人CEO?
(トロント) 2020-12-09 22:11:41
https://www.medicago.com/en/newsroom/takashi-nagao-appointed-president-and-chief-executive-officer-of-medicago/
12月4日のニュースで国産のコロナワクチン開発をしてる会社のCEOが日系人(日本人?)になったとの事。既にトルドー首相は7600万回分のワクチンを購入する契約をしてる。
この会社について詳しい人教えて。
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MTPC Holdings Canada ("MTHC") is the investment holding company of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation ("MTPC"), which owns majority shareholdings of Medicago, Inc., a development stage vaccine and protein base therapeutics company with proprietary plant based protein expression and manufacturing technologies. MTHC was created in 2013 when MTPC acquired a majority shareholding of Medicago, Inc.
三菱田辺製薬の子会社ですね。社長のこの方は三菱田辺の人。
Last month, the federal government gave the company $173 million to supply as many as 76 million doses of its vaccine — should it be successful — and to build a manufacturing facility in Quebec City.
Assuming that every leading vaccine candidate is approved, which is a stretch, Canada, with 358 million doses locked down, has enough to vaccine the entire population five times. (Canada has roughly 37.6 million people, and if everyone needed two shots, it would take just over 75 million doses to innoculate the whole country.)