# Cell Design Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cell-design-labs/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Cell Design Labs, Inc. was a biotherapeutics company based at 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California, that engineered immune cells into "smart, living therapies" for cancer and other diseases. Its platform was a toolkit of proprietary molecular modules — including synthetic Notch (synNOTCH) receptors and programmable, combinatorial-antigen CAR-T circuits developed out of Wendell Lim's lab at UCSF — deployed inside an immune cell to program its specificity and control its killing force, so a therapy recognizes a disease signature and neutralizes it without harming adjacent tissue. The company ran an exclusive research collaboration with Kite Pharma (announced June 2016) on molecular on/off switches for CAR T-cell immunotherapies, and was acquired by Gilead Sciences, announced 7 December 2017. Cell Design Labs no longer operates as an independent company: celldesignlabs.com is dead (DNS resolves to a parked address, HTTP times out; the archived site shows an expired Squarespace subscription). It published no developer program, API, documentation, SDK, or GitHub organization, and none exists to enrich.

## Kin Score — 2.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Cell Therapy, Immunotherapy, Oncology, Synthetic Biology, Cart, Acquired, Defunct

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