#Leili Mortazavi

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How does Trump love science? Let us count the ways:

Sepiedeh Keshavarzi is a permanent resident of Australia, and currently a Senior Research Fellow at University College London. She was invited to give a presentation at this year’s Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. But she was born in Iran, and even though she hasn’t lived there for over a decade she still has her Iranian passport. So the United States denied her a visa and barred her from entering the country.

Hamid Ramezanpour is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He, too, was invited to give a presentation at this year’s Society for Neuroscience. He, too, is originally from Iran. So he, too, was denied a visa and barred from entering the country.

Leili Mortazavi was a student at the University of British Columbia last year. But she also has her Iranian passport, so she was denied a visa and barred from entering the country to attend last year’s Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.

Mortazavi got clever, though, and applied for a Canadian passport. After she received it, the United States let her apply for a visa this year. She is now a graduate research assistant at Stanford.