Funding :
+ Department of Education, $6.5M (2024 – )
+ SDBOR, $0.746M (2023 – )
SDBCC Consortium Director:
William Mayhan, Ph.D. (USD Sanford School of Medicine)
SDBCC Program Directors and Principal Investigators:
William C.W. Chen, M.D., Ph.D. (USD Sanford School of Medicine)
KC Santosh, Ph.D. (USD Computer Science)
Jeff S. McGough, Ph.D. (SDSMT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Welcome to SDBCC
A partnership of USD Computer Science, USD Sanford School of Medicine, and SDSMT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
The $6.5 million in congressionally directed spending was secured by South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds in 2024 and is funded through the Department of Education. In addition, the South Dakota Board of Regents provided approximately $750,000 in seed funding to USD in 2023 to support biomedical computation research and development. The goal of SDBCC is to develop computational and AI resources and tools for biomedical science, medical, and clinic education, allowing healthcare professionals to take advantage of these resources.
Latest News
June 1st, 2025: The Inaugural Symposium of the South Dakota Biomedical Computation Consortium is to be held on June 26-27, 2025, in conjunction with the 7th USD Annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium. Please click on the “SDBCC Symposium” tab on the top of this page for the agenda and registration details of this FREE event!
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