Beacon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage ophthalmic gene therapy company founded in 2023 to save and restore the sight of people living with rare and prevalent retinal diseases that lead to blindness. Built around adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy, the company delivers functional copies of mutated genes into retinal cells so the body can produce the missing therapeutic protein. Its lead clinical program, laru-zova (laruparetigene zovaparvovec), targets X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP), alongside preclinical programs in dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD) and cone-rod dystrophy (CRD), the latter in-licensed from the University of Oxford. Beacon operates across the United Kingdom and the United States, with a corporate base in London and a US presence in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. It is a therapeutics developer, not a software or data platform company, and publishes no public API, SDK or developer program.
Beacon Therapeutics is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Gene Therapy, Ophthalmology, and Clinical Trials.
Beacon Therapeutics’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 7 more developer resources.
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aid: beacon-therapeutics
name: Beacon Therapeutics
description: Beacon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage ophthalmic gene therapy company founded in 2023 to save and restore the
sight of people living with rare and prevalent retinal diseases that lead to blindness. Built around adeno-associated virus
(AAV) gene therapy, the company delivers functional copies of mutated genes into retinal cells so the body can produce the
missing therapeutic protein. Its lead clinical program, laru-zova (laruparetigene zovaparvovec), targets X-linked retinitis
pigmentosa (XLRP), alongside preclinical programs in dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD) and cone-rod dystrophy
(CRD), the latter in-licensed from the University of Oxford. Beacon operates across the United Kingdom and the United States,
with a corporate base in London and a US presence in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. It is a therapeutics developer,
not a software or data platform company, and publishes no public API, SDK or developer program.
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://www.beacontx.com/wp-content/themes/beacon/assets/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/beacon-therapeutics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Gene Therapy
- Ophthalmology
- Clinical Trials
- Life Sciences
- Rare Disease
- Pharmaceuticals
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.beacontx.com/
- type: About
url: https://www.beacontx.com/about-us/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.beacontx.com/news-and-events/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://www.beacontx.com/feed/
- type: Contact
url: https://www.beacontx.com/contact/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.beacontx.com/privacy-statement/
- type: Careers
url: https://www.beacontx.com/careers/
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/beacon-therapeutics-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-06'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: not-a-software-company
detail: Beacon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage AAV gene therapy developer whose entire public surface is a 14-page WordPress
marketing site (pipeline, clinical trials, disease focus, careers) — /developers, /api, /openapi.json, /llms.txt and every
/.well-known/ path return a hard 404, and the product is a retinal therapeutic, not software.
evidence:
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/developers
status: 404
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.beacontx.com/sitemap_index.xml
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-06'
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