Egill Másson gave a presentation of Akthelia at the Science4Peace Summit, a manifestation of the Swedish American Life Science Summit (SALSS) together with The Galien Foundation, which took place in Stockholm on the 12th of December during the Nobel festivities.

Barbro Ehnbom, the founder of SALSS, and her team had invited dignitaries in science, life science and healthcare to participate in a manifestation for peace and solidarity.

The themes of the summit were “The future of precision medicine” (Dr. Thomas Sakmar, Professor from the Rockefeller University) and “Precision Medicine (Dr. Mathias Uhlén, Professor in Human Microbiology at KTH,

In between the main presentations, Akthelia, BioArctic, CELLINK, Devyser, EpiEndo and LIDDS Pharma presented their exciting breakthroughs to the SALSS guests, and formed new business relationships with investors and other partners. Further in the program, Dr. Tim Opler, Partner and Co-Founder of Torreya Partners, also gave the audience a business perspective on the life science industry, reports Irina Polishchuk.

Dr. Florence Haseltine, Professor from the University of Texas at Arlington, and Dr. Yuval Binur, Managing Partner of Arsuf Global Partners, joined Mr. Ola Rosling in discussing the current state of affairs in the world and their personal experiences.

Bruno Cohen, Chairman of the Galien Foundation, ended the conference with a touching remembrance of Eile Wiesel and his life’s remarkable endeavors.

In addition, SALSS Science4Peace with utmost honor welcomed Oleksandra Romantsova, Executive Director of Centre for Civil Liberties (CCL) and this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate to the Gala Dinner.

SALSS Science4Peace

The former big pharma executive and Wall Street analyst, Barbro Ehnbom, founded the Swedish-American Life Science Summit (SALSS) 20 years ago and the conference has since then become a beloved annual tradition. Last year’s edition was supposed to be the last but with the unprecedented war in Ukraine Barbro Ehnbom felt the urge to do something.

“The pandemic made us aware of how important health and medicine is for individuals and society, and that it also impacts geopolitics and industry. Now is the time to come together to show the level of knowledge we have reached and how to bring it into the future of healthcare,” says Ehnbom.

The 2022 SALSS SCIENCE4PEACE is a special edition of the classic SALSS format to explore the connection between Science and Peace with the long-term mission of welcoming our fellow Ukrainian colleagues into the European and American Life Science Community.