Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese: Võ Đình Tuấn) (Nha Trang, 11 April 1948) is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and professor of Chemistry and director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke.
Born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, he earned his doctorate in biophysical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1975 and emigrated to the United States in 1975.
His research group is developing a photothermal immunotherapy technology that uses lasers and gold nanostars to heat up and destroy tumors, in combination with an immunotherapeutic drug.
43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm.
[4] In May 2019, he received the Sir George Stokes Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of "outstanding and sustained contributions to analytical science through innovations in the field of photonics, spectroscopy, molecular biology and nanotechnology.