Welcome to the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for COMmunity Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to SocietieS (NSF COMPASS)!
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.
The U.S. NSF COMPASS Center is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) program. The PIPP program supports three other centers.
- NSF CPI led by the University of California, Davis
- NSF ESCAPE Center led by the University of Kentucky
- NSF APPEX Center led by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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