Darren Yuen is a Clinician Scientist and Staff Nephrologist, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Fibrotic Injury. He completed his MD training at the University of Toronto (2002), his PhD in the lab of Dr. Richard Gilbert at the University of Toronto (2011), and his postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Dr. Lisa Robinson at the Hospital for Sick Children (2013). He is a co-founder of Fibrocor Therapeutics, which is developing new anti-fibrotic treatments. His research group is based at St. Michael’s Hospital. Dr. Yuen’s current research program is focused on developing new diagnostics and therapeutics for organ injury.

Seminar topic: Hippo pathway dysregulation: a novel driver of crescentic kidney disease