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Subra Suresh
Vannevar Bush Professor Emeritus
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Contact Info
Email:
ssuresh@mit.edu
Website/Lab:
Nanomechanics Laboratory
Research
Professor Subra Suresh’s research is in the following areas: nanomechanics of biological cells and molecules, and human disease states; structure-mechanical property-disease connections in the context of P. falciparum malaria, hereditary blood cell disorders and cancer; computational simulations of cellular and molecular deformation and shape thermodynamics; high force optical tweezers studies of biological cells and human disease states; nanostructured materials; and nanoindentation and microindentation.