‘We can really be a movement’: Karishma Manzur, Exeter scientist running for Senate, bets on populist ideals and rejecting corporate donations

By: Lila De Almeida

Outlets: Concord Monitor

Published: July 29, 2026

Words: 1,201

Last Updated: 5 days, 5 hours ago


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After two decades spent developing treatments for neurological diseases, Karishma Manzur still felt like she wasn’t doing enough to help people.

Manzur spent her childhood in the wake of a war in Bangladesh that killed several family members. When her father was assassinated, and she was arrested, along with her siblings and her mother, she was only seven years old. Arriving as refugees in Massachusetts, the family survived on incomes earned at …

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