# Chimerix

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chimerix/  
**Website:** https://www.chimerix.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Chimerix, Inc. was a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, focused on developing medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. It is best known for brincidofovir (TEMBEXA), an antiviral approved by the U.S. FDA in 2021 as a smallpox medical countermeasure, and for dordaviprone (ONC201), an investigational small-molecule therapy for H3 K27M-mutant diffuse glioma, a form of brain cancer. Chimerix was a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CMRX) and was acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals in 2025, primarily for dordaviprone; the chimerix.com domain now redirects to jazzpharma.com. As a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, Chimerix does not operate a public developer program or API surface — this profile tracks it as a company entity within the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 3.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 3.3).

| 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**: 7.5 (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).

## Security (1)

- **Chimerix Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Biopharmaceutical, Pharmaceuticals, Oncology, Antivirals, Life Sciences, Clinical Stage

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