2025 The Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event Honoring Bela Suki

You are cordially invited to the 2025 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event on Thursday, April 3rd, at 4:00 pm in the Photonics Colloquium Room (8 St. Mary’s Street, 9^thFloor, Room 906).

The Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes researchers with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship, senior leaders in industry, and inventors of transformative technologies.  The event gives the recipient a forum to discuss their work before the Boston University academic community and the general public.  This year’s award recipient is our very own Professor Bela Suki – congratulations, Bela!

Professor Suki studies biomechanics and mechanobiology of soft tissues and extracellular matrices, especially related to the lung and vasculature. He has invented a device, called AccuStretch, that mimics the breathing action of the lung, allowing researchers to test treatments on diseased lung tissue from organ donors. Suki has also developed a new way to measure the stiffness of lung tissue, and a computational model aimed at better understanding the progression of pulmonary fibrosis.

Since joining Boston University, initially as a research associate, in 1993, Suki has served on several NIH-funded grants, including a Transformative R01. He has authored or co-authored 246 peer-reviewed articles, 12 book chapters, and a book; and advised more than 30 graduate students and 20 postdoctoral fellow. A fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Suki has earned the Joseph R. Rodarte Award for Scientific Distinction from the American Thoracic Society, and the Evans Center Research Collaborator Award from the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

The College of Engineering looks forward to seeing you at this distinguished event. Please RSVP by Friday, March 21, 2025.