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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 15 more developer resources.

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27.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
AccessSelf serve
8 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyBiotechnologyGene TherapyCell TherapyContract ManufacturingLife SciencesPharmaceuticalsCDMOAAV

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 27.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 11.9 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.0 / 17
Commercial Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Governance 1.2 / 10
Discoverability 6.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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 0 / 4
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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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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

ascend-advanced-therapies-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 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
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Careers
Careers
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay
 CookiePolicy
CookiePolicy

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
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: AgentSkill
  url: skills/ascend-advanced-therapies-monitor-news-insights.md
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ascend-advanced-therapies-mcp.yml
- 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