📣 Meet Dr. Colin Bishop, Professor at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and COMPASS co-investigator. His research spans fertility genetics, stem cell biology, and organoids (human Organ Tissue Equivalents) used for toxicity testing and disease modeling.

🧬 Meet Dr. Laura Goodman, NSF COMPASS Co-Investigator and Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Her lab studies pathogen genomics, tackling antimicrobial resistance, tick-borne diseases, and virus discovery at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health.

📣 Meet Dr. Julie Gerdes, Assistant Professor of Technical & Scientific Communication at Virginia Tech and COMPASS Co-Investigator.

Meet Dr. Yian Yin, Assistant Professor at Cornell and computational social scientist helping COMPASS understand how science works (and how to make it work better).

🦠 Meet Dr. Adam Lauring, COMPASS Jump co-lead, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan.

🤖 Meet Dr. Anuj Karpatne, AI researcher, COMPASS co-investigator, and Jump thrust co-lead! He’s an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and his work focuses on knowledge-guided machine learning–AI tools designed with science in mind.

🧫 Meet Dr. Colin Parrish, COMPASS Co-Investigator and Professor of Virology at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

🦠 Say hi to Dr. Kelly Speer–COMPASS co-investigator and Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, where she studies host-parasite interactions through the lens of biodiversity and history.

🔬 Meet Dr. Anil Shanker–COMPASS co-investigator, Senior VP for Research and Innovation at @meharrymed.bsky.social, and a tenured professor in multiple biomedical sciences.

🎤 Meet Patty Raun, COMPASS Co-Investigator, Empower thrust member, and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Theatre Arts at @virginiatech.bsky.social

Meet Dr. Linsey Marr, COMPASS Co-Principal Investigator, Persist thrust co-lead, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at @virginiatech.bsky.social @vtengineering.bsky.social

🧬Meet Dr. X.J. Meng—virologist, professor, and COMPASS co-investigator. He’s a University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology at Virginia Tech and studies how viruses leap across species and how we can stop them with vaccines.

🧠 Meet Dr. Lisa M. Lee–epidemiologist, bioethicist, and co-lead of the Empower thrust at COMPASS!

Big welcome to our first-ever NSF COMPASS Summer Undergrad Research cohort!

🧪Say hi to Dr. Kylene Kehn-Hall–COMPASS Co-Investigator, Director of CeZAP, and Professor at Virginia Tech!

🧠Meet Dr. James Henderson, Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan!

📊Say hey to Dr. Tiffany Drape, our go-to for all things program evaluation here at NSF COMPASS! Based at Virginia Tech, Tiffany’s helping us track progress and show the real-world value of our work—designing smart tools and collaborating with the team to meet big goals.

🧭 Say hello to Leslie, our amazing Project Manager at the NSF COMPASS Center!

👋 Say hi to Dr. T.M. Murali, the director of the NSF COMPASS Center! Dr. Murali is a computer science professor at Virginia Tech whose research digs into how proteins and molecules work together inside cells. #COMPASSCenter #VirginiaTech #VirusResearch #ResearchLeadership #BehindTheScience

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