The 2017 Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology - Global Research Network (BMIT-GRN 2017) was held as scheduled at SJTU from May 25 to 26, 2017. The meeting was co-chaired by David Feng Dagan, Jinman Kim, Zhang Yanning, and Zhuo Li, and more than 40 experts from various renowned universities at home and abroad attended the meeting.

The experts attending the meeting paid a visit to the Imaging Building and the Interactive Training Center of Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Institute of Translational Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Zhang Xianming, director of the Translational Medicine Office, extended a warm welcome to all the experts, and deputy director Sun Jielin gave an academic report titled “Translational Medicine Imaging Platform Construction Plan”, which gained recognition from the audience. The experts also discussed the topics they are concerned about and reached a consensus on some issues, which brought the symposium to a successful conclusion.