# Ascend Advanced Therapies

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ascend-advanced-therapies/  
**Website:** https://www.ascend-adv.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 27.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 56.2 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 23.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **ascend-advanced-therapies-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Ascend Advanced Therapies Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ascend Advanced Therapies Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ascend-advanced-therapies/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.