Akouos announced the appointment of Rabia Gurses Ozden, M.D., as chief development officer. Dr. Ozden brings to Akouos more than 15 years of clinical development, operations and medical affairs experience with novel therapeutics and medical devices. Most recently, she served as the chief medical officer at Nightstar Therapeutics. Prior to Nightstar, Dr. Ozden held leadership positions at Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline, and earlier in her career held clinical development and operations roles at Quark Pharmaceuticals, Baush & Lomb Pharmaceuticals and Carl Zeiss Meditec.