
Ya'el Courtney, PhD
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postdoc in immunology @ Stanford Robinson lab | 2024 Harvard neuro PhD @LehtinenLab • @HHMINews Gilliam Fellow • NSF Fellow • 32/100 📚 in 2025
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https://www.yaelcourtney.com/ 05-06-2018 11:08:14
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Led by Ya'el Courtney, PhD and out today in Nature Neuroscience: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread rdcu.be/eoaSY



A seminal work from Ya'el Courtney, PhD which should serve as a reminder of the importance of funding for research and scientific discovery.

Brilliant work from Ya'el Courtney, PhD Lehtinen Lab on novel choroid plexus-centered signaling system and its involvement in shaping mechanisms of maternal-fetal interplay during brain development. Next up: role for these choroid plexus-based mechanisms after birth, including in





Congratulations Ya'el Courtney, PhD! Your speech was inspiring, and yes, the onus is on us to communicate science. Challenge accepted! Ya'el's excellent speech is around minute 14 youtube.com/watch?v=1gXanA…




This was truly an exceptional speech by my friend Ya'el Courtney, PhD. "Imagine a generation of Harvard PhDs who count impact not in citations, but in how many communities we reach." A critical reminder on how we communicate science and how we restore public trust.
