Dr Dupont qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons Medical School, Dublin in 1993. He trained in Nephrology on the North Thames specialty training scheme and completed a PhD in transplantation immunology at Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital in 2005. He was appointed Consultant Nephrologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital, London in 2006 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 2008. He has a subspecialty interest in renal transplantation including pre-transplant assessment, infectious complications of transplantation and management of chronic allograft dysfunction. He is principal investigator for a number of clinical trials in renal transplantation. Dr Dupont is member of the Renal Association, British Transplantation Society and the London Transplant Research Network.