William Hauswirth receives 2014 OIS Innovator Award

William Hauswirth, Ph.D. was co-awarded the 2014 OIS Innovator Award in Chicago at the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit, a full day pre-meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting. He shared the award with Dr. Nick Myzyczka, Ph.D. also from the University of Florida and Susan Washer, president and CEO of AGTC.  Hauswirth and Muzyczka are co-founders of AGTC, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing Adeno-associated virus based therapies for a variety of retinal diseases.