An $18 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant will establish a new Virginia Tech center to bring computer science, infectious disease, engineering, and the arts together to predict and prevent global pandemics.
Read MoreA world where we can accurately foresee pandemics and minimize their impact. We seek to forecast and control future viral pandemics by addressing the grand challenge of uncovering the genetic, molecular, cellular, and chemical rules of life underlying pathogen-host interactions through community-based and ethically grounded research.
Leslie Thornton-O’Brien, M.A.
Project Manager, NSF COMPASS Center
Virginia Tech | Computer Science
Blacksburg, VA 24060
lthornto@vt.edu
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