Michael's Hospital. He received his training at the University of Toronto. Darren's clinical interest is in kidney transplantation and his research focuses on the development of new ways to better diagnose and treat kidney scarring, which is a major cause of chronic renal failure. He was recently a featured new investigator speaker at the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) Annual Meeting held in Montreal in April 2015. Darren is supported by the Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training Program (KRESCENT): first as a postdoctoral fellow and, more recently, as a New Investigator. He also currently holds operating grants from the CIHR, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Kidney Foundation of Canada, and the J.P. Bickell Foundation.