Our Mission

Healthy hearing available to all

We are a precision genetic medicine company 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.

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Hearing Health

Hearing Connects Us with One Another and the World Around Us

Restoring, improving and preserving high-acuity hearing is an area of high unmet need in medicine: 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, but there are no FDA-approved therapies to address its underlying causes.

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Our Focus

Innovation is at the core of what we do.

Learn more about our technology platform and how we’re bringing precision medicine to the inner ear.

The Team

A passionate team committed to changing lives.

At Akouos, listening is in our DNA. We believe the only way to achieve our ambitious goals is to engage as one team, listen to each other, and trust in ourselves and our science.

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