Akouos, Inc.

Akouos Inc.(www.akouos.com) is a precision genetic medicine company. The Company is focused on developing gene therapies with the potential to restore, improve, and preserve high-acuity physiologic hearing for people worldwide who live with disabling hearing loss. The Company has developed a precision genetic medicine platform that incorporates a vector library consisting of variants of a small virus commonly used in gene therapy, known as adeno-associated virus (AAV) and a delivery approach. The Company is focused on executing on its strategic initiatives, which include the advancement of its lead product candidate, AK-OTOF, a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene; expansion of its pipeline to include programs focused on other monogenic conditions as well as inner ear conditions of complex etiology, such as AK-antiVEGF for vestibular schwannoma; and development of internal manufacturing capabilities, and a commercial infrastructure.

• Akouos, Inc.