aid: akston-biosciences
name: Akston Biosciences
description: 'Akston Biosciences Corporation is a privately held biotechnology company
  headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, founded in 2011 by the team from SmartCells,
  Inc. and led by CEO Todd Zion, Ph.D. Akston designs, develops and manufactures protein
  therapeutics built on its proprietary Ambifect Fc-fusion protein platform, with a
  pipeline focused on companion-animal (veterinary) medicine: PD-L1 monoclonal antibody
  oncology candidates (AKS-701d, AKS-619d), a long-acting GLP-1 for feline weight management
  (AKS-562c), an IL-31 targeting therapy for canine pruritus (AKS-699), and NGF-targeting
  candidates for osteoarthritis pain. Its veterinary insulin program was sold to Dechra
  in 2024, and human programs continue through the Vakston and Diamune Therapeutics
  subsidiaries. The company announced a manufacturing expansion in Shreveport, Louisiana.
  Akston is a therapeutics developer and manufacturer, not a software vendor: it publishes
  a corporate marketing site and no public API, SDK, developer portal or machine-readable
  specification.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/akston-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
image: https://www.akstonbio.com/wp-content/themes/ssw-akston/assets/images/header/akston-logo.svg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- Animal Health
- Veterinary Medicine
- Protein Therapeutics
- Biomanufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/about/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/feed/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/contact/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/careers/
- type: Team
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/team/
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.akstonbio.com/partners/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akston-biosciences-corporation/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/akston-biosciences-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: Akston Biosciences is a veterinary protein-therapeutics developer and manufacturer
    whose entire web presence is a nine-page WordPress marketing site (about/process/pipeline/news/careers/contact)
    with no developer section; api., developer., docs. and portal.akstonbio.com are all
    NXDOMAIN and every spec and .well-known probe returned 404.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.akstonbio.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.akstonbio.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.akstonbio.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.akstonbio.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.akstonbio.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-06'