https://api.biopharmawatch.com
BiopharmaWatch API
Programmatic access to biotech catalyst intelligence: FDA & PDUFA calendars with data-driven probability-of-approval scores, clinical pipeline, SEC-derived financial health, hedge-fund & insider signals, options flow, and the full company universe. REST, JSON, one API key.
Plans & access
Two plans. BiopharmaWatch API Basic gives you the full events, reference, and financial-health layer to build on. BiopharmaWatch API Elite Plus adds our proprietary signal layer (Smart Money, machine-learning clinical-trial datasets, options flow) plus 10× throughput.
API Basic
Billed annually at $1,190/year
For developers building internal tools, trackers, and their own apps.
- Complete FDA calendar with upcoming clinical readouts and PDUFA dates
- Probability of Approval (PoA) summary and deep scorecards
- 5+ years of PDUFA data with decision outcomes and approval status
- Historical catalyst data with price movements and key event metadata
- Clinical-pipeline database, auto-updated across all monitored companies
- SEC financial health: runway, burn, dilution and distress signals
- Unusual-volume alerts, company universe, holders, gainers/losers
- JSON response format with secure API key authentication
- 100 requests/min
API Elite Plus ELITE PLUS
Billed annually at $2,268/year
For quants, funds, and data-driven investors who want the edge.
- Everything in API Basic, plus full access to all platform data in real-time
- Company & pipeline scoring: risk-adjusted NPV (rNPV) and valuation signals
- M&A target scores, deal tracker, and acquirer leaderboard
- Pipeline health grades and competitive landscape intelligence
- Hedge-fund positioning and insider-trading activity (Smart Money)
- Conviction-weighted hedge-fund sentiment scores
- Proprietary machine-learning clinical-trial results and risk signals
- FDA designations, approvals and adverse-event safety signals
- Options flow, options chain and put-call analytics
- Analyst ratings, price targets and firm actions
- 1,000 requests/min with full historical depth and priority support
- Free setup consultation call for custom integration needs
Authentication
Every request takes your API key as the apiKey query parameter. Keys are managed in your account, under API Access (one active key per account; regenerate any time).
curl "https://api.biopharmawatch.com/api/v2/fdacalendar?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&ticker=MRNA"
Conventions
| Topic | Detail |
|---|---|
| Response envelope | Data is returned under result (typically { "result": [{ "data": [ … ] }] }). |
| Pagination | page (50 results/page) on list endpoints. |
| Dates | YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD accepted on date filters. |
| Rate limits | Per-minute by plan (100 Basic / 1,000 Elite Plus) plus per-endpoint burst caps. 429 when exceeded. |
| Errors | Non-200 responses carry { "error": "…" }. |
FDA Intelligence
The catalyst backbone: upcoming and historical FDA/PDUFA events with probability-of-approval scoring.
| Param | Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker | string | optional | Filter by ticker (e.g. MRNA) |
drug | string | optional | Filter by drug name |
phase | string | optional | Stage (e.g. Phase 3) |
catalyst | string | optional | PDUFA Date, NDA Filing, and more |
catdateFrom/To | string | optional | Date range |
page | integer | optional | Page (50/page) |
{
"result": [{ "data": [{
"ticker": "MRNA", "drugname": "mRNA-1345",
"catdate": "2026-06-15", "stage": "Phase 3",
"catalyst": "PDUFA Date", "treatment": "RSV Vaccine",
"poa": "72%", "regulatory_designations": ["Fast Track","Priority Review"],
"therapeuticArea": "Infectious Disease"
}]}]
}
poa %, the poa_summary rationale, and the full score breakdown.createdDayPrice, catalystDayPrice, percentageChange).Clinical Pipeline
Clinical trials mapped to tickers, plus proprietary machine-learning trial outcomes and risk signals.
Financial Health
SEC-derived survival signals: the "who is about to dilute" layer.
{
"result": [{ "data": [{
"ticker": "ACAD", "risk_level": "HEALTHY",
"adjusted_runway": { "adjusted_runway_months": 48.5 },
"burn_rate": 25000000, "total_liquidity": 1200000000,
"dilution_risk": "LOW", "market_cap": 4500000000
}]}]
}ticker required.ticker required.Smart Money ELITE PLUS
Who is accumulating: 13F holdings for 39 biotech-specialist funds plus insider activity and proprietary sentiment.
ticker required.{
"result": {
"ticker": "MRNA", "quarter": "Q4 2025",
"compositeScore": 0.72, "sentimentLabel": "POSITIVE",
"activity": { "buyers": 8, "sellers": 2, "newPositions": 3, "exits": 1 }
}
}Market Signals
Calendar, context, and unusual-volume alerts (Basic), plus options flow (Elite Plus).
ticker required.ticker required.Company Data
The company universe and reference profiles (Basic), plus analyst signals (Elite Plus).
sector, industry, market_cap_min/max.ticker in path.ticker required.type = gainers|losers, limit.Scoring & Valuation ELITE PLUS
Our proprietary scoring cascade: company pipeline scores, risk-adjusted NPV (rNPV), and valuation signals, computed nightly across the full universe. You get the scores, not the rate tables.
{
"result": {
"ticker": "BMY", "pipelineScore": 78.4, "pipelineGrade": "A",
"valuation_signal": "UNDERVALUED", "totalPipelineRNPV_B": 142.6,
"marketCapB": 98.2, "rNPV_to_mktcap_ratio": 1.45,
"peerTier": "large_pharma", "percentileRank": 94,
"components": { "riskAdjustedValue": { "bestAsset": { "drugName": "..." } } }
}
}
grade, valuation, tier, minScore; sort by score, rNPV, or percentile.Clinical Intelligence ELITE PLUS
Machine-learning trial risk signals, company pipeline health, the bitemporal change log, and the canonical drug-pipeline reference, all from Clinical Trials 2.0.
ticker or nctId.ticker, severity, days.Competitive Intelligence ELITE PLUS
Who is ahead in every indication: competitive landscapes with phase ranking, enrollment, design quality, and market size.
M&A Tracker ELITE PLUS
Acquisition-likelihood scores, curated deal history, and the acquirer leaderboard.
ticker, tier, minScore.acquirerTicker, targetTicker, dealType, therapeuticArea.