# Ascend Advanced Therapies > Gene-to-GMP contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for advanced therapies, specializing in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector development and manufacture for gene therapies, immunotherapies, oncolytics, and vaccines. Ascend is a life-science manufacturer, not a software vendor: it offers no commercial product API, no developer portal, and no SDKs. The only machine-readable interface it exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its corporate website. Generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-07-19. The provider does not publish an llms.txt (https://www.ascend-adv.com/llms.txt returns 404); this file was generated from apis.yml and the artifacts in this repository. ## Company - [Ascend Advanced Therapies](https://www.ascend-adv.com/): Corporate site. Formed 2023 with over $130M of funding; aligned with ABL, Inc. since late 2024. Investors include Abingworth, Petrichor, DCVC Bio, 4BIO Capital, Cathay Health, Deerfield Management, Digitalis Ventures, and Ajinomoto. - [About Us](https://www.ascend-adv.com/about-us/): Company, leadership team, board of directors, and the ABL Bio alignment. - [Locations](https://www.ascend-adv.com/about-us/locations/): Rockville, Maryland (9800 Medical Center Drive, Building D) and Alachua, Florida, plus European capacity. - [Contact](https://www.ascend-adv.com/contact-us/): General enquiries, hello@www.ascend-adv.com. - [Careers](https://www.ascend-adv.com/careers/): Open roles, also available as structured JSON from the content API. ## Services - [Our Expertise](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/): Overview of the service lines. - [EpyQ Production System](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/epyq/): Ascend's AAV production platform. - [Platform Innovation](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/platform-innovation/): Proprietary manufacturing enhancers that raise AAV yields while holding critical quality attributes. - [Process Development](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/process-development/): Upstream and downstream process development and optimization. - [Gene Therapy Formulation](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/formulation/): Formulation development for gene therapy products. - [Scalable Manufacturing](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/scalable-manufacturing/): cGMP clinical and commercial manufacture. - [Aseptic Fill-Finish](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/in-house-fill-finish/): In-house automated fill-finish for vials, syringes, and cartridges. - [Analytics and GMP QC Testing](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/analytics-testing/): Release and characterization testing. - [NGS for Viral Vectors](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/analytics-testing/ngs-service-for-viral-vectors/): Long-read next-generation sequencing service. - [Potency Assay Services](https://www.ascend-adv.com/our-expertise/analytics-testing/potency-assay-services-for-advanced-therapies/): Potency assay development for advanced therapies. ## APIs - [Content API (WordPress REST)](https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json/): The site's WordPress REST API, base URL https://www.ascend-adv.com/wp-json. Anonymously readable. Exposes News & Insights posts, site pages, media, categories and tags, site search, content-type and taxonomy metadata, and the `awsm_job_openings` custom post type behind the Careers listings. Writes require WordPress Application Password credentials over HTTP Basic. This is a marketing-site content API, not a product API offered to Ascend customers. Key endpoints: - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts` — News & Insights posts (55 at time of capture). Supports `page`, `per_page` (1-100), `search`, `categories`, `tags`, `slug`, `order`, `orderby`. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/pages` — static site pages. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/awsm_job_openings` — open roles. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/categories` — news, articles, blogs, webinar. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/media` — media library, including posters and white papers. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/search?search=` — cross-content search. - `GET /wp-json/wp/v2/types` — registered content types and their REST bases. Conventions: page-number pagination via `page` and `per_page`, with totals in the `X-WP-Total` and `X-WP-TotalPages` response headers and an RFC 8288 `Link` header carrying `rel="next"`. Pass `_embed` to inline related author, media, and term resources. Errors are the WordPress REST envelope (`code`, `message`, `data.status`) as `application/json` — not RFC 9457 problem+json. No idempotency contract, no documented rate limits, no request-id header. ## Specs and artifacts - [OpenAPI 3.1](openapi/ascend-advanced-therapies-wp-rest-openapi.yml): Derived from live route discovery; only anonymously verified operations are documented. - [Overlay](overlays/ascend-advanced-therapies-wp-rest-overlay.yaml): API Evangelist enhancements over the specification. - [Authentication](authentication/ascend-advanced-therapies-authentication.yml): WordPress Application Passwords over HTTP Basic; anonymous read verified. - [Conventions](conventions/ascend-advanced-therapies-conventions.yml): Pagination, embedding, caching, CORS, error envelope, versioning. - [Error catalog](errors/ascend-advanced-therapies-problem-types.yml): Error codes captured by live probe. - [Data model](data-model/ascend-advanced-therapies-data-model.yml): Entity-relationship graph across posts, pages, media, terms, users, comments, and job openings. - [Lifecycle](lifecycle/ascend-advanced-therapies-lifecycle.yml): Versioning by namespace; no deprecation policy, SLA, status page, or changelog. - [Conformance](conformance/ascend-advanced-therapies-conformance.yml): Standards conformance and recorded non-conformance. - [MCP server](mcp/ascend-advanced-therapies-mcp.yml): Candidate read-only tool list derived from the specification; no hosted server exists. - [Agent skills](skills/_index.yml): Packaged operating instructions for the marquee read flows. - [Well-known](well-known/ascend-advanced-therapies-well-known.yml): Discovery probe results; the provider publishes no /.well-known/ surface. - [Domain security](security/ascend-advanced-therapies-domain-security.yml): TLS 1.3, no HSTS, no DNSSEC, no CAA, SPF present, DMARC quarantine. ## Optional - [News and Insights](https://www.ascend-adv.com/news-insights/): Articles, blogs, news, and webinars. - [RSS feed](https://www.ascend-adv.com/feed/): Company news feed. - [Resources](https://www.ascend-adv.com/resources/): Posters, white papers, and additional resources. - [Events](https://www.ascend-adv.com/events/): Conference and event schedule. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascend-advanced-therapies/): Company page. - [Terms and Conditions](https://www.ascend-adv.com/terms-and-conditions/) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.ascend-adv.com/privacy-policy/) ## Not available Ascend Advanced Therapies publishes no developer portal, API reference, getting-started guide, SDKs or client libraries, CLI, sandbox, changelog, status page, pricing page, sign-up flow, roadmap, Postman collection, GitHub organization, webhooks or event surface, security.txt, vulnerability disclosure policy, or trust center. These absences were verified by probe on 2026-07-19 and are recorded in the artifacts above rather than inferred.