Dorsa Sattari-Khavas, daughter of Iran's former Vice President Sorena Sattari, is reportedly living in the US and conducting research. According to Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and credentialed Pentagon reporter, Sattari-Khavas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
She carries out research on synthetic biology, including work on programmable RNA platforms, microbial engineering for environmental sensing, sulfite reductase switches, and bioelectronic systems. Notably, aspects of Sattari-Khavas' lab-related work was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant Number W911NF-22-1-0239.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation (HHS/NIH), Department of Energy, and the Office of Naval Research also funded her research. Sattari-Khavas is noted as the lead author in a paper titled Microbial spies and bloggers: programming cells to convert environmental information into discernible signals.
