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Overview: The UPM
The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(
UPM,
),
a top quali-
ty academic establishment with more
than 3.000 faculty members, around
30.000
undergraduate students and
6.000
postgraduates in 21 Schools, has a
strong commitment to R&D and Innova-
tion. Within the 6th Framework Program-
me, the University took part in 149 Euro-
pean R&D projects with more than 25
M€ of funding received from the Euro-
pean Commission.
Within the 7th Framework Programme
the UPM was recognized as the Spanish
university with the highest numbers of
projects approved and a leading Euro-
pean university. The UPM focuses on
Engineering and Applied Sciences. In the
last two years, various degrees have
been introduced in the UPM curriculum:
an engineering degree in biotechnology
and another degree in biomedical engi-
neering. The latter also includes an in-
tensification in biomedical informatics in
its fourth, last year.
The UPM is distributed over several cam-
puses. One of them is located in Monte-
gancedo, within the Urbanización Monte-
príncipe, which gathers the School of
Computer Science (Facultad de Informá-
tica) and various research centers, with
particular emphasis in biomedical topics.
Within the Montegancedo campus where
the GIB facilities are located, there are
various advanced Information Technolo-
gies (IT) infrastructures, such as a vir-
tual reality cave, a wind tunnel, a living
lab, advanced neuroscientific systems
and the fastest supercomputer in Spain
(
CESVIMA). In the last Shanghai ran-
kings of universities, the UPM was ran-
ked in the top of Spanish universities in
the area of computer science.
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Madrid: The City
Madrid is one of the most fascinating
cultural cities in the world. Three mu-
seums (Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Reina Sofía) make Madrid one of the
prominent artistic cities in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes was born and lived
in Alcalá de Henares, a city near Madrid.
Other classical close cities are Aranjuez,
El Escorial, Segovia, Toledo and Avila.
Placido Domingo, born in Madrid, has
been a cultural ambassador of the city
over the last five decades.
Real Madrid, the top winner of football
and basketball European cups, attracts
every year millions of soccer fans.
The GIB
The Biomedical Informatics Group (GIB)
was formally established in 1993 under
the direction of Professor Victor Maojo, a
faculty member of the Department of
Artificial Intelligence at the School of
Computer Science. One year later, Prof
Jose Crespo, a PhD graduated from
Georgia Tech, joined the group. Built
from scratch, the group is now a top
Spanish group, in terms of top-ranked
scientific publications, international colla-
borations and projects in the area of
biomedical informatics. It is a reference
in many research, educational and inno-
vative European activities in the field.
The GIB's main interests are two: first,
to carry out research in the field of bio-
medical informatics and second, to train
young researchers in this interdiscipli-
nary area, working on research projects
and software development.
The GIB has more than thirty resear-
chers and a large number of collabora-
tors. We have participated in various
research projects and networks, both
national and international, particularly
funded by the European Commission.
For instance, the projects BIOINFOMED,
INFOGENMED; INFOBIOMED, ACGT,
Action-Grid, DICODE, P-Medicine, Inte-
grate, EURECA, INBIOMEDVision and
AFRICA BUILD. We have also carried out
many research activities with various
foreign and national hospitals and trans-
ferred R&D achievements to the Spanish
industry.
Recently, the GIB has agreed to be part
of the New Institute of Research, Hospi-
tal 12 de Octubre, in Madrid.