Welcome to the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for COMmunity Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to SocietieS (NSF COMPASS)! 

Our vision is an aspirational destination: A world where we can accurately foresee pandemics and minimize their impact. The NSF COMPASS Center, with collaborators from Virginia Tech, Cornell University, Wake Forest University, University of Michigan, and Meharry Medical College, seeks 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.