Recent Headlines DigiMed Bayern flagship project launches its "Secure Cloud" The "DigiMed Bayern Secure Cloud" for health data was officially launched in the presence of an expert audience from science, business and politics. It is the jointly developed pilot infrastructure at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The DigiMed Bayern flagship P4 medicine project (www.digimed-bayern.de), the symposium and the DigiMed Bayern Secure Cloud offer valuable and tangible approaches for actively shaping the upcoming European Health Data Space (EHDS), for which the EU legislative process is currently underway. DigiMed Bayern focuses on advancing Germany in the responsible use of health data in scientific, medical and technical aspects. The focus is on how the widespread disease atherosclerosis and its serious consequences, heart attacks and strokes, can be prevented. The DigiMed Bayern Secure Cloud, which was launched, will not only serve DigiMed Bayern scientists as a research pilot project, but will also provide and develop expertise in the field of secure cloud infrastructures "Made in Germany". Read more Hit the buzzer for the official launch of the DigiMed Bayern Secure Cloud for health data: Dr. Moritz von Scheidt, German Heart Centre Munich, Florent Dufour, LRZ & Technical University Munich, AI in Medicine, Vincent Bode LRZ, Dr. Z., LRZ, Dr. Jens Wiehler, BioM/ DigiMed Bayern (f.l.t.r). © BioM TUM joins global open source "AI Alliance" of IBM and Meta The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has joined the "AI Alliance", a global open source initiative by IBM and Meta. This alliance, consisting of over 50 companies, universities and institutions, including renowned names such as the University of California (Berkeley), Yale University and ETH Zurich, aims to make artificial intelligence (AI) transparent and generally accessible. The AI Alliance has set itself the goal of shaping the development of AI responsibly and promoting open source models. The mission includes the development of open foundation models, efficient software frameworks and tools, and the use of the hardware ecosystem to accelerate new software approaches. TUM will contribute its expertise in AI-based robotics and knowledge acquisition to the alliance. IBM will contribute its extensive expertise to the development of multimodal base models. An initial cooperation project between IBM and TUM is to be launched in the coming months, with many more projects between the partners to follow. Dr. Alessandro Curioni from IBM, Prof. Angela Schoellig, Prof. Daniel Rixen, Prof. Eckehard Steinbach and Prof. Sami Haddadin from the Technical University of Munich © Andreas Schmitz / TUM Read more Bavarian Biotech News, December 2023 www.bio-m.org 3