Swedish American Group Focuses On Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases At... _ https://www.forbes.com/sites/genemarcial/20 17/09/09/swedish-american... Forbes / Investing / #StockWatch SEP 9, 2017 @ 05:48 PM 729@® 12 Stocks to Buy Now Swedish American Group Focuses On Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases At Life Science Summit Gene Marcial, CONTRIBUTOR have an insider's take on Wall Street FULL BIO YW Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Continued from page 1 “Part of this year’s conference focus was the current transformation of the HealthTech industry, driven by the ICT and tech players rather than by the traditional medtech companies,” said Barbro C. Ehnbom, chairman and founder of SALSS. Also significant, she added, was the participation of numerous women at this year’s summit, led by the keynote speaker Dr. Bahija Jallal, executive vice president at AsraZeneca and head of Medimmune. “ We are proud and glad that so many prominent women are actually SALSS women, including Dr. Jallal, which made this 2017 summit more exceptional,” said Ms. Ehnbom. One of the little known companies that attracted a lot of attention at the conference was AVRA Medical Robotics, a development-stage company based in Orlando, Florida, that has a new generation of “semi-autonomous medical robots for image-capture, navigation, and tissue targeting.” Specifically, these “medical robots” perform computer-assisted surgery, with human medical surgeons operating a remote surgical device via a console. In fact, they are not really robots as we know them: AVRA has developed a "novel and truly robotic single-arms platform for the field of aesthetics, skin and wound care as well as dermato-plastic surgery,” said Barry F. Cohen, AVRA’s CEO and founder. The company’s first design integrates software, image guidance, navigation and targeting systems, to allow autonomous needling of skin, he explained. “The future of surgery will be determined by success in gaining precision access to anny area of t