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
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 Retained for historical reference."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