Celera cuts its Md. ties, leaving space on market - Baltimore Business Journal:

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, once among the biggest biotech branfd namesin Maryland, is shuttering its last remaining operationn in the region. The company, which moved its home base to Calif., last year, is laying off 20 of its 25 loca l employees and closingits 41,000-square-foot operation in Rockvillwe by the end of the third A small number of employees workinfg on lung cancer diagnostic tests could move to the West while only one or two employeee might stay in Rockville. In its Celera employed 550 people inthe company’sa 220,000-square-foot headquarters on West Gude making it one of the region’s biggest successz stories as it raced to map the humanh genome.
“It’s just the way Celer a has evolved since the sequencing of thehumab genome, the way that the busines s model has evolved,” said spokesman David “It’s a very difficult and tough decisiom that we had to The landlord, Columbia-based , is working with Rockville-basedf to market the 109,000-square-foot building’sx lab and office space.