Apr 24, 2025
Kick-off of KIMed - a strong start for university medicine in Dresden
State Secretary Prof. Dr. Heike Graßmann and the KIMed project managers at the kick-off event on 23 April (from left): Prof. Dr. Martin Sedlmayr (TU Dresden), Dr. Matthias Nüchter (Leipzig University), Prof. Dr. Christoph Meyer (Mittweida University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Dr. Toralf Kirsten and Prof. Dr Thomas Neumuth (both Leipzig University)
The „KIMed - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Infrastructure and Applications“-project had its kick-off event in Leipzig yesterday!
KIMed is a joint project of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), the University of Leipzig and the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, which is co-financed by the European Union and the Free State of Saxony. The aim of the project is to establish a secure and networked infrastructure for AI applications in medicine over the next three years. The focus is on the design of a protected research environment and concretely applicable AI demonstrators.
Dresden University Medicine and the ZMI were strongly represented on site
Prof. Dr Uwe Platzbecker (Medical Director of the UKD), Prof. Dr. Esther Troost (Dean of the TUD Faculty of Medicine), Prof. Dr. Martin Sedlmayr (Director of the ZMI and Dresden PI of KIMed), Dr. Eveline Prochaska (Project Manager DD), Karolin Hofmann (Projectcoordination Dresden) and Dr. Claudia Heine (Communication Dresden) represented the TUD and the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden.
Prof. Dr. Martin Sedlmayr opened the kick-off and led through the event. He emphasised the great potential of KIMed to improve the medical framework conditions of tomorrow - starting with prevention, through therapy to aftercare. With KIMed, a powerful research network is being created that strengthens the application of AI in medicine. He emphasised what they have in common: the network will be able to position itself successfully for the future, not competitively, but through close cooperation between Dresden, Leipzig, Mittweida and other partners.
Prof. Dr. Martin Sedlmayr, Director of the ZMI and Dresden PI of KIMed
Prof. Dr. Esther Troost emphasised the importance of KIMed as a catalyst for science and industry in Saxony. She also focussed on training and further education: According to the Dean, medical students at the TUD act as multipliers for the integration of AI in medicine. KIMed also aims to promote the recruitment of new talent for training, studies and active science at the TUD and within Saxony.
Prof. Dr. Esther Troost, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Uwe Platzbecker emphasised that Dresden, with the Centre for Medical Informatics (ZMI) and the Data Integration Centre (DIZ), has excellent structural units and thus very good conditions for the work within KIMed and the promotion of AI in medicine. He emphasised that AI already plays a key role in diagnostics and will become even more important in the future - for example in the fields of radiology, pathology and geriatrics.
Prof. Dr. Uwe Platzbecker, Medical Director of the UK Dresden
Prof. Dr. Heike Graßmann, State Secretary of the sponsoring Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism, highlighted the importance of KIMed as a strong network that has the potential to achieve national and international visibility and establish Saxony as a hub for AI in medicine.
Prof. Dr. Heike Grassmann, State Secretary of the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK)
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