| Pratt School of Engineering

Duke Engineers Awarded 19 Major Externally Funded Graduate Fellowships

PhD student Tyler Vasse in the Vo-Dinh Lab received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

| Pratt School of Engineering

Light-and-Sound-Based Thermometer Helps Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer

By combining high-res imaging tools with light-absorbing nanostars, researchers can more precisely treat cancerous tumors

| Duke Chronicle

Duke mechanical engineers develop more efficient diagnostic platform for cancer, other diseases

A team of mechanical engineers has created a new diagnostic platform that can be used to detect various cancers and other serious medical conditions with greater efficiency.

| Pratt News

Water Droplet Spun by Sound Screens for Colon Cancer

New platform separates biomarkers with a water droplet-based centrifuge that spins up to 6000 RPM, pushed only by sound waves

| Royal Society of Chemistry

The article on Nanorod in plant cells for in vivo SERS sensing and multimodal imaging (Nanoscale, 2023,15, 6396-6407) was featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry's U.S National Nanotechnology Special Collection celebrating 20 years of nanotechnology

In 2023, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) celebrated nanotechnology’s achievements over the past 20 years around the theme: "Enabling the Nanotechnology Revolution.” This phrase is inspired by the vision statement for the National Nanotechnology Initiative which is to enable “a future in…

Nanorattles Shake Up New Possibilities for Disease Detection

New nanoparticle shape can greatly enhance signals from multiple separate biomarkers at once, accurately detecting head and neck cancers without biopsies to improve global health Read more

Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh receives the 2022 SPIE President’s Award

Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh received the 2022 SPIE President’s Award  Dr. Vo-Dinh received the 2022 SPIE President’s Award, from SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. The SPIE President’s Award is presented to an individual who, in the opinion...

RSC Sir George Stokes Award Symposium Honoring Tuan Vo-Dinh at the 2021 SciX Conference

  The RSC Sir George Stokes Award Symposium Honoring Tuan Vo-Dinh was organized at the SciX Conference on September 30,2021   SIR GEORGE STOKES AWARD The biennial Sir George Stokes Award is given to a leading analytical scientist awarded for translating research in…

Tuan Vo-Dinh: Nano-plasmonics for medical diagnostics and therapy

SPIE Fellow Tuan Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, professor of chemistry, and director of The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University (USA). His research has focused on the...

Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target amplification. Read More

Spectroscopy for Medicine: From SERS, Laser-Induced Fluorescence, and Biosensors to Analytical Nanotools

Working at the frontiers of biotechnology, fiberoptics, lasers technique and molecular spectroscopy, Tuan Vo-Dinh of Duke University has developed multiple sensor technologies useful for medical research and diagnostics.  Read More

Dr. Vo-Dinh Wins 2019 Sir George Stokes Award

Tuan Vo-Dinh, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, professor of chemistry, and director of The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University, has been awarded the 2019 Sir George Stokes Award by the Royal...

Tuan Vo-Dinh To Be Part Of The International Day Of Light In Paris

Duke photonics expert Tuan Vo-Dinh, director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering and professor of chemistry, will be among a distinguished roster of speakers in Paris on May 16,...

Gold Nanostars and Immunotherapy Vaccinate Mice Against Cancer

By combining an FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy with an emerging tumor-roasting nanotechnology, Dr. Vo-Dinh and group improved the efficacy of both therapies in a proof-of-concept study using mice. Read more

Dr Vo-Dinh presented a plenary lecture at the IPA 2015 / SPIE Biophotonics South America Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 22 - May 26, 2015

Dr. Vo-Dinh presented a plenary lecture at the IPA 2015 / SPIE Biophotonics South America Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 22 - May 26, 2015.  Read more