An Iranian-born research scientist who filed a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging a co-worker at the University of Alabama at Birmingham harassed her for nine years because of her ethnicity was awarded more than $3.8 million in damages September 10, 2024. 

Moeinpour’s lawyer, Eric Artrip, said his client "put up with years of being called all sorts of terrible names. This case is a reminder that people do not have to suffer racial discrimination in silence and that the American justice system works for all of us."

Moeinpour is a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Iran in 1989 and settled in Birmingham. She said her ordeal began in February 2011 after she was transferred from another UAB lab to one headed by Clinton Grubbs. In her 2021 lawsuit, Moeinpour said she had been moved to Grubbs’ lab after she found evidence of data falsification and manipulation and reported it to an agency of the federal Department of Health and Humans Services.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iranian-born-scientist-sued-university-alabama-birmingham-awarded-38-m-rcna170448