Dr. Hartwig completed her PhD at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, in Renal Developmental Biology. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Developmental Nephrology at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hartwig’s research in the kidney is focused on the molecular regulation of nephrogenesis by members of the Sry-Related HMG Box (SOX) family of transcription factors. Dr. Hartwig's work is supported by The Kidney Foundation of Canada and CIHR.