On January 27th 2020, 13 research groups (including eXiT) specialized in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to Biomedicine met at the Center for Biomedical Technology of the Polytechnic University of Madrid to kick off the National Network on Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine (IABiomed-net).

The meeting discussed lines of action to consolidate AI in the biomedical field at the national level. In addition, the strategies to strengthen collaborations between different research groups that make up the IABiomed-net network have been defined.

It is a fundamental objective to provide answers to the demands of the citizenry on the great social challenges by implementing AI in the biomedical field. The network, financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, is committed to act as an inclusive and integrating agent for all the Spanish R&D groups leading in solving biomedical problems by application of Artificial Intelligence technologies (including Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing).