News about the NSF COMPASS Center
COMPASS Center receives $18 million NSF award
The Center for COMmunity Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to SocietieS (COMPASS Center) received an $18 million, 7-year U.S. National Science Foundation award. Led by researchers at Virginia Tech, the NSF COMPASS Center will bring computer science, infectious disease, engineering, and the arts together to predict and prevent global pandemics.
Two transdisciplinary research teams earn Destination Area 2.0 Phase II awards
Pandemics can be studied at a variety of scales, from molecules to cells to organs to organisms to societies to ecosystems. The Pandemic Prediction and Prevention team brings together scientists and humanists to tackle a variety of interrelated problems and reach an aspirational destination: A world where we accurately foresee pandemics and proactively minimize their impact.
Virginia Tech researchers address the grand challenges of pandemic prediction and prevention
T.M. Murali, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, along with several colleagues from across Virginia Tech, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to tackle grand challenges in the prediction and prevention of infectious disease pandemics.