Hysi pursued other opportunities for research at Ryerson. He worked closely with Kolios and his collaborators. Kolios, a Canada Research Chair in Ryerson’s Department of Physics, is studying new techniques for early cancer detection and treatment.
Hysi presented his original work three times at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference. Once he entered the MSc program, under Kolios’s supervision, his options opened further. Hysi earned funding through the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), the OGS in Science and Technology, and the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, totalling $47,500. His research in red blood cell aggregation and photoacoustics was presented in ten international and national conferences, and published in several journals and conference proceedings. So far this year he has contributed to six papers.
“Translational research” aims to reduce barriers and time lags between science and practical need. It has a growing role in medicine and patient outcome. Already, Hysi is working to move this goal forward.
