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Cajal Neuroscience

Cajal Neuroscience, which now operates publicly as Cajal Therapeutics, is a Seattle, Washington biotechnology company founded in 2020 by Alex Vaughan, Andrew Dervan and Ian Peikon, and launched in November 2022 with a $96 million Series A led by The Column Group and Lux Capital with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and Bristol Myers Squibb. The company develops small-molecule and RNA medicines that restore iron homeostasis, built around "iron mobilizers" — small molecules that transport iron across membranes into the compartments where it is required, bypassing disease-driven bottlenecks such as chronic inflammation, altered iron transporter expression and lysosomal dysfunction. Its pipeline spans systemic disease (CTX001, a clinical-stage iron mobilizer for anemia of chronic kidney disease; CTX201 and CTX211, preclinical siRNA programs for inflammatory anemia and myelofibrosis anemia) and CNS disease (a discovery-stage brain-penetrant iron mobilizer for Parkinson's disease). This is a therapeutics company, not a software or data platform company: it publishes no developer program, no public API, and no machine-readable API contract. Its public GitHub organization contains open-source laboratory hardware and firmware (a drone-motor spin coater, a microfluidic pressure sensor, a flow sensor) plus forks of third-party single-cell and genomics analysis tooling — none of which expose a network API.

Cajal Neuroscience is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Drug Discovery, and Neurodegeneration.

Cajal Neuroscience’s developer surface includes product news and 8 more developer resources.

7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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CompanyBiotechnologyPharmaceuticalsDrug DiscoveryNeurodegenerationNeuroscienceTherapeuticsLife SciencesGenomicsHealth

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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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aid: cajal-neuroscience
name: Cajal Neuroscience
description: 'Cajal Neuroscience, which now operates publicly as Cajal Therapeutics, is a Seattle, Washington biotechnology
  company founded in 2020 by Alex Vaughan, Andrew Dervan and Ian Peikon, and launched in November 2022 with a $96 million
  Series A led by The Column Group and Lux Capital with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and Bristol Myers Squibb. The
  company develops small-molecule and RNA medicines that restore iron homeostasis, built around "iron mobilizers" — small
  molecules that transport iron across membranes into the compartments where it is required, bypassing disease-driven bottlenecks
  such as chronic inflammation, altered iron transporter expression and lysosomal dysfunction. Its pipeline spans systemic
  disease (CTX001, a clinical-stage iron mobilizer for anemia of chronic kidney disease; CTX201 and CTX211, preclinical siRNA
  programs for inflammatory anemia and myelofibrosis anemia) and CNS disease (a discovery-stage brain-penetrant iron mobilizer
  for Parkinson''s disease). This is a therapeutics company, not a software or data platform company: it publishes no developer
  program, no public API, and no machine-readable API contract. Its public GitHub organization contains open-source laboratory
  hardware and firmware (a drone-motor spin coater, a microfluidic pressure sensor, a flow sensor) plus forks of third-party
  single-cell and genomics analysis tooling — none of which expose a network API.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cajal-neuroscience/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: no-api-surface
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
  source:
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  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.cajal-tx.com/apple-touch-icon.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-08'
modified: '2026-08-08'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Drug Discovery
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuroscience
- Therapeutics
- Life Sciences
- Genomics
- Health
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
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- type: Website
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- type: GitHubOrganization
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
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- type: News
  url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/news
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/contact
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/careers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cajal-tx/
- type: LLMsTxt
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x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-08'
  status: minimal
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  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Cajal is a clinical-stage iron-homeostasis therapeutics company (CTX001 in Phase 1) whose only public engineering
    output is open-source lab-bench hardware — a drone-motor spin coater and two microfluidic sensors — so there is no product
    for an API to expose; cajalneuro.com 307-redirects to cajal-tx.com, and api./docs./developer./data.cajal-tx.com have no
    DNS record at all.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.cajal-tx.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/CajalNeuroscience
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-08'

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