Signonsandiego.com -- The Japanese drug company Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma is shutting a La Jolla research facility that dates to the early 1990s and plans to start clean later this year with a new research focus. About 35 people will lose their jobs when the company shuts Tanabe Research Labs U.S.A., according to an attorney for the company, David R. Snyder of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
