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How Immigrants Are Innovating To Save Our World

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In this talk, James highlights how important the work of immigrants has been to the remarkably fast development of the COVID-19 vaccines, particularly the novel mRNA models at Moderna and Pfizer. He illustrates how brilliant and determined immigrants are helping to save the world from this horrifically deadly virus and the resulting pandemic. The talk allows the audience to reflect on and appreciate the incredibly important impact immigrants make to our innovation ecosystem and society at large. They will be even more vital to our nation’s resurgence as an epicenter of invention, entrepreneurship and progress.

In this talk, James highlights how important the work of immigrants has been to the remarkably fast development of the COVID-19 vaccines, particularly the novel mRNA models at Moderna and Pfizer. He illustrates how brilliant and determined immigrants are helping to save the world from this horrifically deadly virus and the resulting pandemic. The talk allows the audience to reflect on and appreciate the incredibly important impact immigrants make to our innovation ecosystem and society at large. They will be even more vital to our nation’s resurgence as an epicenter of invention, entrepreneurship and progress.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxNJIT, an independent event.

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