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Born and raised in the Persian Jewish community of Iran, at age 15 Samadi and his younger brother left in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution.^[3] They continued their education in Belgium and London before coming to the United States where Samadi completed high school in Roslyn, NY. ^[4] After high school, Samadi attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and earned his degree in biochemistry on a full scholarship