Ascend Advanced Therapies

Ascend Advanced Therapies is a gene-to-GMP contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for advanced therapies, specializing in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector development and manufacture for gene therapies, immunotherapies, oncolytics, and vaccines. Formed in 2023 when expert teams merged behind more than $130M of funding, and aligned with ABL, Inc. since late 2024, Ascend operates GMP manufacturing, aseptic fill-finish, and analytical facilities in Rockville, Maryland and Alachua, Florida alongside European capacity. Services span process development, gene therapy formulation, scalable manufacturing, in-house fill-finish, GMP QC testing, long-read NGS for viral vectors, and potency assay development, built on its EpyQ production system and proprietary AAV yield enhancers. Ascend is a life-science manufacturer rather than a software vendor and publishes no commercial product API; the only machine-readable interface it exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its corporate website, captured here for discovery.

Ascend Advanced Therapies publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Careers API, Discovery API, Media API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy, and Contract Manufacturing.

Ascend Advanced Therapies’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 16 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Company Biotechnology Gene Therapy Cell Therapy Contract Manufacturing Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals CDMO AAV

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.7 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Careers API

Job openings custom post type.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Discovery API

Site, content-type, and taxonomy metadata.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Media API

Media library attachments.

Ascend Advanced Therapies oEmbed API

oEmbed discovery for site URLs.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Pages API

Static site pages.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Posts API

News & Insights articles, blogs, and webinar entries.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Search API

Cross-content site search.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Taxonomy API

Categories and tags.

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Discovery API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Media API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers oEmbed API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Pages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Posts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ascend Advanced Therapies Content API (WordPress REST) Careers Taxonomy API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ascend Advanced Therapies Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ascend Advanced Therapies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogRSS

Careers

LinkedIn

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

CookiePolicy

CookiePolicy

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ascend-advanced-therapies
name: Ascend Advanced Therapies
description: Ascend Advanced Therapies is a gene-to-GMP contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for advanced
  therapies, specializing in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector development and manufacture for gene therapies, immunotherapies,
  oncolytics, and vaccines. Formed in 2023 when expert teams merged behind more than $130M of funding, and aligned with ABL,
  Inc. since late 2024, Ascend operates GMP manufacturing, aseptic fill-finish, and analytical facilities in Rockville, Maryland
  and Alachua, Florida alongside European capacity. Services span process development, gene therapy formulation, scalable
  manufacturing, in-house fill-finish, GMP QC testing, long-read NGS for viral vectors, and potency assay development, built
  on its EpyQ production system and proprietary AAV yield enhancers. Ascend is a life-science manufacturer rather than a software
  vendor and publishes no commercial product API; the only machine-readable interface it exposes is the WordPress REST content
  API behind its corporate website, captured here for discovery.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-favicon-192x192.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ascend-advanced-therapies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Gene Therapy
- Cell Therapy
- Contract Manufacturing
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- CDMO
- AAV
apis:
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-careers-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Careers API
  description: Job openings custom post type.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Careers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-careers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-discovery-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Discovery API
  description: Site, content-type, and taxonomy metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-media-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Media API
  description: Media library attachments.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-media-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-oembed-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies oEmbed API
  description: oEmbed discovery for site URLs.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - oEmbed
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-oembed-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-pages-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Pages API
  description: Static site pages.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-posts-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Posts API
  description: News & Insights articles, blogs, and webinar entries.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Posts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-posts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-search-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Search API
  description: Cross-content site search.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
- aid: ascend-advanced-therapies:ascend-advanced-therapies-taxonomy-api
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Taxonomy API
  description: Categories and tags.
  humanURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Taxonomy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/ascend-advanced-therapies-capability-edges.yml
  name: Ascend Advanced Therapies Business Capability Map
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/ascend-advanced-therapies-monitor-news-insights.md
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/ascend-advanced-therapies-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/ascend-advanced-therapies-wp-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/about-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/news-insights/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/feed/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/contact-us/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/careers/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/privacy-policy/
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.ascend-adv.com/cookie-policy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascend-advanced-therapies/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ascend-advanced-therapies-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ascend-advanced-therapies-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ascend-advanced-therapies-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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