Richard Austin is a Professor of Medicine, Amgen Canada Research Chair in Nephrology and Career Investigator of the Heart and Stroke. As Director of the Hamilton Centre for Kidney Research, he combines biomedical and genetic research strategies to better understand how cellular stress pathways drive cardiovascular and kidney disease. With >150 publications in high-impact scientific journals, Dr. Austin’s seminal discoveries have contributed to the development of new medicines for these diseases. As a passionate scientist, he serves on numerous grant panels and is a celebrated mentor of >70 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, many of whom are now productive researchers.