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Darren Yuen

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of Toronto

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Darren Yuen

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (11 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2020.

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Research

Fibrosis Taz Yap Chronic Kidney Disease Ultrasound Collapsing Glomerulopathy Lats1 Lats2

Latest papers

Quantification of Kidney Inflammation Using Nanobubble-mediated Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.
Nanotheranostics · 2026
Microfluidic Generation of Monodisperse Nanobubbles by Selective Gas Dissolution.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2021
Right ventricular fibrosis is associated with cardiac remodelling after pulmonary valve replacement.
Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2019

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Imaging of Transplant Kidney Fibrosis and Inflammation Using Quantitative and Nanobubble Enhanced Ultrasound
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$857,565
Commercialization of H-scan: a new tool for imaging kidney fibrosis
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$726,750
YAP and TAZ: novel regulators of collapsing glomerulopathy
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$875,926

All 16 grants and awards

11 publications.

Quantification of Kidney Inflammation Using Nanobubble-mediated Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.

Shirazi NR, He X, Dranka D, Falou O, Hysi E, Exner AA, Yuen D, Kolios MC

Nanotheranostics2026

DOI: 10.7150/ntno.126443 PMID: 41726762

Microfluidic Generation of Monodisperse Nanobubbles by Selective Gas Dissolution.

Xu J, Salari A, Wang Y, He X, Kerr L, Darbandi A, de Leon AC, Exner AA, Kolios MC, Yuen D, Tsai SSH

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2021

DOI: 10.1002/smll.202100345 PMID: 33811441

Right ventricular fibrosis is associated with cardiac remodelling after pulmonary valve replacement.

Yamamura K, Yuen D, Hickey EJ, He X, Chaturvedi RR, Friedberg MK, Grosse-Wortmann L, Hanneman K, Billia F, Farkouh ME, Wald RM

Heart (British Cardiac Society)2019

DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313961 PMID: 30514732

Conventional hemodialysis is associated with greater bone loss than nocturnal hemodialysis: a retrospective observational study of a convenience cohort.

Auguste BL, Yuen D, Chan CT

Canadian journal of kidney health and disease2016

DOI: 10.1186/s40697-016-0118-5 PMID: 27252880

The Association Between Conversion to In-centre Nocturnal Hemodialysis and Left Ventricular Mass Regression in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease.

Wald R, Goldstein MB, Perl J, Kiaii M, Yuen D, Wald RM, Harel Z, Weinstein JJ, Jakubovic B, Leong-Poi H, Kirpalani A, Leipsic J, Dacouris N, Wolf M, Yan AT

The Canadian journal of cardiology2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2015.07.004 PMID: 26386732

Relationship between different blood pressure measurements and left ventricular mass by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in end-stage renal disease.

Merchant A, Wald R, Goldstein MB, Yuen D, Kirpalani A, Dacouris N, Ray JG, Kiaii M, Leipsic J, Kotha V, Deva D, Yan AT

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension : JASH2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2015.01.011 PMID: 25753299

The (Pro)renin receptor: site-specific and functional linkage to the vacuolar H+-ATPase in the kidney.

Advani A, Kelly DJ, Cox AJ, White KE, Advani SL, Thai K, Connelly KA, Yuen D, Trogadis J, Herzenberg AM, Kuliszewski MA, Leong-Poi H, Gilbert RE

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)2009

DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.109.128645 PMID: 19546380

The natural history of coronary calcification progression in a cohort of nocturnal haemodialysis patients.

Yuen D, Pierratos A, Richardson RM, Chan CT

Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association2006First author

DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl021 PMID: 16504981

Decreased expression and impaired function of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the rat hippocampus following transient forebrain ischemia.

Zhang G, Zhang L, Logan R, Jung BP, Yuen D, Ching Hsu J, Eubanks JH

Neurobiology of disease2005

DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2005.05.011 PMID: 15951192

Inflammation, cardiovascular disease and nocturnal hemodialysis.

Yuen D, Chan CT

Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension2005First author

DOI: 10.1097/01.mnh.0000168936.03152.4e PMID: 16205472

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Darren Yuen

Research

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Latest funding

Quantification of Kidney Inflammation Using Nanobubble-mediated Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.

Microfluidic Generation of Monodisperse Nanobubbles by Selective Gas Dissolution.

Right ventricular fibrosis is associated with cardiac remodelling after pulmonary valve replacement.

Conventional hemodialysis is associated with greater bone loss than nocturnal hemodialysis: a retrospective observational study of a convenience cohort.

The Association Between Conversion to In-centre Nocturnal Hemodialysis and Left Ventricular Mass Regression in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease.

Relationship between different blood pressure measurements and left ventricular mass by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in end-stage renal disease.

The (Pro)renin receptor: site-specific and functional linkage to the vacuolar H+-ATPase in the kidney.

The natural history of coronary calcification progression in a cohort of nocturnal haemodialysis patients.

Decreased expression and impaired function of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the rat hippocampus following transient forebrain ischemia.

Inflammation, cardiovascular disease and nocturnal hemodialysis.

Imaging of Transplant Kidney Fibrosis and Inflammation Using Quantitative and Nanobubble Enhanced Ultrasound

Commercialization of H-scan: a new tool for imaging kidney fibrosis

YAP and TAZ: novel regulators of collapsing glomerulopathy

Stage-specific treatment of human non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: elucidating the precise mechanisms of actions of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and novel anti-fibrosis molecules

YAP and TAZ: novel regulators of collapsing glomerulopathy

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

Determining the therapeutic potential of HLA-deficient human pluripotent stem cell-derived beta-like cells

Using enhanced ultrasound to help select the best kidneys for transplantation

Right Ventricular Myocardial Fibrosis from Bench-to-Bedside: Implications for Care.

Using "enhanced ultrasound" to help select the best kidneys for transplantation

Frequent collaborators

Darren Yuen

Anish Kirpalani

Howard Leong-Poi

Ron Wald

Ziv Harel

Kate Hanneman

Eno Hysi

Filio Billia

Jeffrey Perl

Andrew Advani

Jonathon Leipsic