The complaint notes Petrova’s boss at Harvard is Dr. Leonid Peshkin. Peshkin asked Petrova to bring “histological samples of frog embryos” from his scientific collaborators at the Institut Curie Centre de Recherche in France back to Harvard so that their lab could continue processing and analyzing data from them.

A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, her lawyer told Boston 25 News Friday.

A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School was detained by ICE at Boston Logan International Airport when attempting to bring back frog embryos at the request of a professor.

A Russian scientist who works at Harvard University’s Medical School has spent the last six weeks in immigration detention and is facing possible deportation after undeclared frog embryo samples, which she was bringing back to her lab from France,

Kseniia Petrova’s attorney said her previous arrest in Russia and social media activity “will almost certainly ensure a nice, hefty jail sentence for her” if she is deported back.

A Harvard scientist who fled Russia because she opposed the war in Ukraine is facing deportation back to the land of Vladimir Putin, her friends claim. Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School,