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Pooria Mostafalu
Pooria Mostafalu is working on developing smart, wearable devices that can be used to help monitor and treat diseases. He came to the United States for “science, science, science,” and says he does not understand why Trump’s order would target researchers like himself and his colleagues.
Ali Khademhosseini's Lab
Professor Ali Khademhosseini’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School boasts over a dozen affiliates who come from countries listed on Trump’s order, including (from left to right) Elaheh Zare, Fatemeh Sharifi, Ali Tamayol, Elmira Jalilian, and Pooria Mostafalu.
Elmira Jalilian
Elmira Jalilian, an Iranian researcher in the laboratory who is using 3D printing technology to engineer artificial muscle, says the executive order changed her “entire plan.”
Ziad Reslan
“I have conferences planned. I’m supposed to be going to Dubai next week for the World Government Summit, which is a conference that President Obama spoke at last year, and I’m one of four representatives from the Kennedy School,” says Ziad Reslan, Harvard Kennedy School Student and Syrian citizen, who is now unsure of whether he can attend due to the recent immigration bans.
Law Clinicians, Faculty Sign Amicus Brief Against Executive Order
Four Harvard faculty members signed onto an amicus brief filed in a federal appeals court Sunday night to support a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s immigration order.