2025 Year in Review: The Year We Became Real
In 2025, the USD Discovery District shifted from development to destination. With Building 1 activated, new tenants moving in, national leaders visiting Sioux Falls, and global partnerships taking shape, the District’s momentum became impossible to ignore.
2025 South Dakota Bioscience Market Study: Mapping the State’s Growth Potential
The USD Discovery District has released the 2025 Market Study, a data driven look at South Dakota’s bioscience strengths, cost and speed advantages, talent pathways, and alignment with national research priorities including the recently announced Genesis Mission. Explore how the state is positioning itself for the next decade of bioscience growth.
New 2025 Market Study Shows South Dakota Poised for Significant Bioscience Growth
The USD Discovery District has released the 2025 Market Study, a data driven look at South Dakota’s bioscience strengths, cost and speed advantages, talent pathways, and alignment with national research priorities including the recently announced Genesis Mission. Explore how the state is positioning itself for the next decade of bioscience growth.
Advancing Nutritional Science From the Heart of South Dakota
OmegaQuant Analytics has become one of the most trusted names in nutritional science, but its story begins here in Sioux Falls. In this episode of Favorable Environments, Dr. Kristina Harris Jackson reflects on how a simple dried blood spot test grew into a global diagnostics platform used in more than seventy countries. Her conversation with Tung Nguyen reveals what it takes to translate research into tools people can use at home, why communication matters in science, and how South Dakota continues to create the right conditions for long-term innovation.
North America’s Research Parks Are Changing the Innovation Map. South Dakota Has a Real Opportunity to Lead.
President Ryan Oines shares insights from the AURP International Conference and explains how research parks are reshaping innovation by giving companies something rare: time to grow.
Building the Future, One Connection at a Time
President Ryan Oines shares how the USD Discovery District’s new website reflects a digital milestone, built to connect partners, highlight progress, and grow South Dakota’s bioscience ecosystem.