NSF COMPASS Center

The vision of the NSF COMPASS Center is to reach an aspirational destination: A world where we can accurately foresee pandemics and minimize their impact. Our researchers seek to forecast and control future viral pandemics by developing novel computational and experimental technology to address the grand challenge of uncovering the rules of life underlying pathogen-host interactions through community-based and ethically grounded research. The center is a collaboration among Virginia Tech, Cornell University, Meharry Medical College, Northern Arizona University, the University of Michigan, and Wake Forest University.