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This is going to be a long weekend for us at Endpoints, thanks to Labor Day in the US, and it’s much needed. September is shaping up to be a busy month, with biopharma seemingly coming back from the summer and events kicking into gear. If you have any news to share, we always appreciate some lead time. For the daily readers — see you on Tuesday.

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I hope your weekend is off to a nice start, wherever you are reading this email. As for me, I’m trying to catch the tail of the Lunar New Year festivities.

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Following the success of the mRNA Covid vaccines, cancer vaccines are seeing renewed interest after years of middling results. But a group of researchers suggests that more attention needs to be paid not to what goes into those vaccines, but how the parts are put together.

In a recent paper published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers led by Northwestern University’s Chad Mirkin describe how the placement of different antigens in a cancer vaccine impacts its efficacy. The paper builds on past work done by Mirkin’s lab that suggests the structure, or how the parts of a vaccine are arranged, impact a vaccine’s efficacy, not just its components.

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The 20-year reign of AbbVie’s best-selling biologic of all time — the autoimmune disease biologic Humira (adalimumab) that has brought in upwards of $200 billion during its monopoly — is coming to an end tomorrow with the launch of Amgen’s biosimilar Amjevita.

The launch comes more than four years after Europe saw the exact same competition, leading to steep discounts in price, higher uptake, and big cost savings across the board.

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Roche’s Genentech is tackling diversity in multiple sclerosis again, this time with a focus on the Black community. Its “MS Visibility” effort, debuted in 2021, is now adding to the awareness campaign with new work that includes a set of videos featuring discussions among Black women and healthcare professionals.

“They’re incredibly inspiring Black women living with or connected to MS and they’re having just honest conversation about their experience and the unique barriers that their community faces,” said Jennifer Kim, head of neuroimmunology at Genentech marketing.

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