PRA Health Sciences

PRA Health Sciences was a global contract research organization (CRO) headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, providing outsourced clinical development services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. On July 1, 2021 ICON plc completed its acquisition of PRA Health Sciences in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $12 billion, forming one of the world's largest healthcare research organizations. Following the acquisition the PRA Health Sciences brand has been fully retired and operations were merged into ICON. The legacy prahs.com domain redirects to iconplc.com / icongroup.com and no PRA-branded developer programs, public APIs, SDKs, or technical documentation remain.

PRA Health Sciences is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Clinical Trials, Contract Research Organization, CRO, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical.

PRA Health Sciences’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 3 more developer resources.

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6.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Clinical TrialsContract Research OrganizationCROLife SciencesPharmaceuticalBiotechnologyHealthcareDefunctAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

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Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Acquirer

Acquirer

AcquirerAnnouncement

AcquirerAnnouncement

SuccessorEntity

SuccessorEntity

Source (apis.yml)

name: PRA Health Sciences
description: 'PRA Health Sciences was a global contract research organization (CRO) headquartered

  in Raleigh, North Carolina, providing outsourced clinical development services to

  pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. On July 1, 2021 ICON plc completed its

  acquisition of PRA Health Sciences in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at

  approximately $12 billion, forming one of the world''s largest healthcare research

  organizations. Following the acquisition the PRA Health Sciences brand has been

  fully retired and operations were merged into ICON. The legacy prahs.com domain

  redirects to iconplc.com / icongroup.com and no PRA-branded developer programs,

  public APIs, SDKs, or technical documentation remain.

  '
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/pra-health-sciences/blob/main/apis.yml
humanURL: https://www.iconplc.com
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/api-evangelist
tags:
- Clinical Trials
- Contract Research Organization
- CRO
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceutical
- Biotechnology
- Healthcare
- Defunct
- Acquired
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
type: Index
aid: pra-health-sciences
access: 3rd-Party
status: Defunct
deprecated: true
deprecatedReason: PRA Health Sciences is defunct. Retained for historical reference.
acquisition:
  acquirer: ICON plc
  acquirerUrl: https://www.iconplc.com
  announcedDate: '2021-02-24'
  closedDate: '2021-07-01'
  value: $12B (cash + stock)
  successor: ICON plc (icongroup.com / iconplc.com)
apis: []
common:
- type: Acquirer
  url: https://www.iconplc.com
- type: AcquirerAnnouncement
  url: https://www.iconplc.com/insights/press-releases/2021-press-releases/icon-completes-acquisition-of-pra-health-sciences/
- type: SuccessorEntity
  url: https://www.icongroup.com
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/pra-health-sciences
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com