Akouos in-licenses gene therapy vectors from Mass. Eye and Ear

Newco Akouos Inc. (Boston, Mass.) acquired an exclusive license to a vector platform to develop gene therapies for hearing and balance disorders from Massachusetts Eye and Ear (Boston, Mass.) and Lonza Group Ltd. (SIX:LONN). The license includes sublicensing rights.

The platform includes 40,000 in silico-designed ancestral adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors developed by Luk Vandenberghe at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. ...