2025 Harvard Medical School PhD Graduation Student Address: Ya’el Courtney

From Harvard Medical School

Ya’el Courtney, who graduated with a PhD in neurobiology from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in January 2025, gave a student address at the Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Sciences PhD Hooding Ceremony on May 29, 2025. While at Harvard, Courtney worked in the laboratory of Professor Maria Lehtinen at Boston Children’s Hospital. One of her key studies focuses on how activating certain serotonin receptors during pregnancy can disrupt molecular sig...