How to get object passed into view from Node for use in Angular?

node

app.get('/profile', function(req, res) {
    res.render('profile.ejs', { authUser : req.user });
});

angular

function Ctrl($scope) {
    $scope.user = authUser; // from the view
}

I need access to the authUser in the Angular code. I'm familiar with using $http.get to get data from a res.json(...), but am not sure how to do it in this scenario.