Tuan Vo-Dinh

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name = Tuan Vo-Dinh


birth_date = Birth date and age|1948|04|11
birth_place = Nha Trang, South Vietnam
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fields = Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Photonics
workplaces = Duke University
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Prof. Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh ("vietnamese" Võ Đình Tuấn) (born April 11, 1948) is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University. Vo-Dinh has been ranked No. 43 on a list of "the world's top 100 living geniuses" in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm. [cite news |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567544/Top-100-living-geniuses.html |title=Top 100 living geniuses |work=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2007-10-31 |accessdate=2008-06-19]

Born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, Vo-Dinh earned his doctorate degree in biophysical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1975 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. He researched at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee as Director of Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics and was Professor at University of California, University of Tennessee, (Knoxville), before coming to Duke in March 2006. He specializes in photonics, the science of the interaction between light and matter like biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, etc.

Awards, honors, and distinctions

*Elected Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
*Elected Fellow, American Institute of Chemists (AIC)
*Elected Fellow, SPIE, The International Society of Optical Engineering
*1994–2006 Corporate Fellow: one of the highest honors for distinguished scientists at ORNL.
*R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2007
*Director’s Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Science and Technology, UT-Battelle, 2003
*Distinguished Inventors Award, Battelle Memorial Institute, 2003
*Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2003
*RD-100 Award for Most Technologically Significant Advance in R&D (Multifunctional Biochip), 1999
*Lockheed Martin Commercialization Award, Lockheed Martin, 1998
*AMSE Award, American Museum of Science and Technology (BiOptics), April, 1997
*BER-50 Award for Exceptional Service for a Health Citizenry, US Department of Energy, 1997
*Inventor of the Year Award, Tennessee Inventors Association, 1996
*RD-100 Award for Most Technologically Significant Advance in R&D (SERS Gene Probe), 1996
*Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium (SERODS), 1995
*RD-100 Award for Most Technologically Significant Product of the Year (PCB Spot Test), 1994
*Inventors International Hall of Fame Award, Inventors Clubs of America, 1992
*RD-100 Award for Most Technologically Significant Product of the Year (SERODS Technology), 1992
*Thomas Jefferson Award, Martin Marietta Corporation, 1992
*Languedoc-Rousillon Medal, University of Perpignan (France), 1989
*Scientist of the Year, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1989
*Gold Medal Spectroscopy Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 1988
*RD-100 Award for Most Significant Technological Advance in R&D (Fluoroimmunosensor), 1987
*Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium, 1986
*RD 100 Award for Most Significant Technological Advance in Research & Dev (PNA Dosimeter), 1981

Patents

*T. Vo-Dinh, "Dosimeter for Monitoring Vapors and Aerosols of Organic Compounds," U.S. Patent No. 4,680,165 (1987).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Practical Substrate and Apparatus for Static and Continuous Monitoring by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy," U.S. Patent No. 4,674,878 (1987).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Surface-Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage," U.S. Patent No. 4,999,810 (1991).
*M. J. Sepaniak and T. Vo-Dinh, "Fiber Optic-Based Regenerable Biosensor," U.S. Patent No. 5,176,881 (1993).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Enhanced Photo Activated Luminescence for Screening Polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) and Other Related Compounds," U.S. Patent 5,272,089 (1993).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Raman-Based System for DNA Sequencing, Mapping and Other Separations," U.S. Patent 5,306,403 (1994).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Improved Surface-Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage System," U.S. Patent 5,325,342 (1994).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Apparatus and Methods for Detecting Chemical Permeation," US Patent 5,376,554 (1994).
*T. Vo-Dinh, EPAL Apparatus for Screening Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), and Other Chlorinated Compounds," US Patent 5,318,751 (1994).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Dosimeter and Probe," U.S. Patent 5,400,136 (1995).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Article of Protective Clothing Adapted for Detecting Chemical Permeation and Methods Therapy," US Patent 5,493,730 (1996).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Photo-activated Luminescence Sensor and Method for Detecting Trichloroethoplene and Related Volatile Organochloride Compounds," US Patent 5,525,520 (1996).
*T. Vo-Dinh and P. Viallet, "Biosensor and Chemical Sensors Probes for Calcium and Other Metal Ions," US Patent 5,496,522 (1996).
*T. Vo-Dinh, M. Panjehpour and B.F. Overholt, "Laser-Induced Differential Normalized Fluorescence Method for Cancer Diagnosis," US Patent 5,579,773 (1996).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Advanced Synchronous Luminescence System for Medical Diagnostics," US Patent 5,599,717 (1997).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Gene Probe and Detection System,” US Patent 5,721,102 (1998).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Advanced Surface-Enhanced Raman Gene Probes and Method Thereof,” US Patent 5,783,389 (1998)
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Advanced Surface-Enhanced Raman Gene Probes and Method Thereof,” US Patent 5,814,516 (1998).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Surface-Enhanced Raman Medical Probes and System for Disease Diagnostics and Drug Testing,” US Patent 5,864,397 (1999).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Advanced Synchronous Luminescence System for the Detection of Biological Agents and Infectious Pathogens,” US Patent 5,938,617 (1999).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Advanced Surface-enhanced Raman Gene Probe Systems and Methods thereof,” US Patent 6,174,677 (2001).
*T. Vo-Dinh, N. Erickson, and A.L. Wintenberg, “Integrated Circuit Biochip Microsystem Containing Lens,” US Patent 6,197,503 (2001).
*T. Vo-Dinh and S. Norton, “Method and apparatus of spectro-acoustically enhanced ultrasonic detection for diagnostics,” US Patent 6,212,421 (2001).
*T. Vo-Dinh, “Nanoprobe for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in medical diagnostic and drug screening,” US Patent 6,219,137 (2001).
*T. Vo-Dinh and A. Sadana, “Fractal Analysis of Time Varying Data,” US Patent 6,422,998 (2002).
*T. Vo-Dinh, N. Erickson, and A.L. Wintenberg, “Integrated Circuit Biochip Microsystem” US Patent 6,448,064 B1 (2002)
*T. Vo-Dinh “SERODS Optical Data Storage with Parallel Signal Transfer", US Patent 6,583,397 (2003).
*T. Vo-Dinh “SERODS Optical Data Storage with Parallel Signal Transfer", US Patent 6,614,730 (2003).
*T. Vo-Dinh “Multifunctional and Multispectral Biosensor and Methods of Use”, US Patent 6,743,581 (2004).
*T. Vo-Dinh and M .Hajaligol “Monitoring of Vapor Phase Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons”, US Patent 6,744,503 (2004).
*T. Vo-Dinh and A.L. Wintenberg “Integrated Tunable Optical System” (US Patent 6,965,431 (2004).
*T. Vo-Dinh, "Advanced Synchronous Luminescence Imaging for Chemical and Medical Diagnostics", US Patent 7,103,402 (2006).

Books

*Vo-Dinh T., Room Temperature Phosphorimetry for Chemical Analysis, Wiley Interscience, New York (1984).
*Vo-Dinh T., Editor, Chemical Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Wiley, New York (1989).
*Vo-Dinh T. and Eastwood D.L., Editors, Laser-Based Approaches in Luminescence Spectroscopy, ASTM Publishers, Philadelphia (1990).
*Vo-Dinh T., Editor-in-chief, Biomedical Photonics Handbook, CRC Presss, Boca Raton, FL (2003).
*Gauglitz G. and Vo-Dinh T., Editors, Handbook of Spectroscopy, Wiley-VCH, New York (2003).
*Vo-Dinh T., Editor, Protein Nanotechnology, Humana Press, New York, (in press).

References

External links

* [http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/BME/faculty/tuan.vodinh/ Bio Tuan Vo-Dinh] at Duke University.
* [http://www.vodinh.pratt.duke.edu/ Vo-Dinh Research Group]
* [http://www.nanoscienceworks.org/people/vo-dinh-tuan Bio]
* [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/02-37.htm USPTO recognizes Asian Pacific American creativity during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month] , May 2002
* [http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/vodinh.html Inventor of the Week Archive: Tuan Vo-Dinh] Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
* [http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr19950627-00 Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh to serve on new international journal as editorial board member] , Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Communications and External Relations.