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The health care sector is seeing a digital transformation, and robotic-assisted surgery is a key growth area, says Albert Tsuei, portfolio manager at UBS Asset Management.
Dr Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti is a professor of surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In a recent profile by The New Yorker, Professor Giulianotti remembers that he attended a conference in Germany in 1999, sponsored by Johnson Johnson, where the company demonstrated a prototype of a robotic arm for use in performing surgery.
Johnson Johnson shelved the project, but Professor Giulianotti says “I knew” – and he was galvanized by the concept. Fast forward 20 years… Professor Giulianotti now runs a program in robotic-assisted surgery at the University...
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