Nov. 1, 2015
ASBMB Today's chief science correspondent Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay writes about the complex legal pathway to work for foreign scientists in the U.S. The country's biomedical research enterprise is heavily dependent on scientists born overseas, and the life sciences show the highest levels of growth in numbers of immigrant scientists. Mukhopadhay shares parts of her own story and talks with other foreign-born scientists, immigration lawyers, and university international office directors about navigating the complications inherent in this new reality.