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Building computer based predictive models

Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics

February 24, 2025August 22, 2024 by scott@crybabydesign.com
Categories VT News
Virginia Tech researchers address the grand challenges of pandemic prediction and prevention
Virginia Tech researcher receives collaborative grant to improve cancer therapies

NSF COMPASS Center

Computationally Predicting Pandemics & Protecting the Future

A 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.

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Leslie Thornton-O’Brien, M.A.
Project Manager, NSF COMPASS Center
Virginia Tech | Computer Science
Blacksburg, VA 24060
lthornto@vt.edu

Northern Arizona University

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2412115. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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