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Daniel A. Heller is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions across 84 published works in this main field.

Their subfields of study include molecular biology, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, biomaterials, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Over the course of their career, they have contributed to several intersecting topics, such as:

  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Carbon nanotubes in composites
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Nanoparticle-based drug delivery
  • Biosensors and analytical detection
  • 3D printing in biomedical research
  • Advanced biosensing techniques and applications

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines" (2021, Nature Reviews Materials)
  • "Senescence-Induced Vascular Remodeling Creates Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Pancreas Cancer" (2020, Cell)
  • "Detection of ovarian cancer via the spectral fingerprinting of quantum-defect-modified carbon nanotubes in serum by machine learning" (2022, Nature Biomedical Engineering)
  • "P-selectin-targeted nanocarriers induce active crossing of the blood-brain barrier via caveolin-1-dependent transcytosis" (2023, Nature Materials)
  • "Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation" (2020, Nature Nanotechnology)

The scientist has also collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mijin Kim
  • Zvi Yaari
  • Anand Jagota
  • Ming Zheng
  • Ryan M. Williams

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Nano Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In addition to journal publications, Daniel A. Heller has authored books published by World Scientific and Apress eBooks. Titles include Handbook of Carbon Nanomaterials (2024) and Building a Career in Software (2020).

Best Publications

  • Treating metastatic cancer with nanotechnology

    Avi Schroeder;Daniel A. Heller;Monte M. Winslow;Monte M. Winslow;James E. Dahlman

  • Near-infrared optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Paul W. Barone;Seunghyun Baik;Daniel A. Heller;Michael S. Strano

  • Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines

    Mandana T. Manzari;Yosi Shamay;Hiroto Kiguchi;Hiroto Kiguchi;Neal Rosen;Neal Rosen

  • Optical Detection of DNA Conformational Polymorphism on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Daniel A. Heller;Esther S. Jeng;Tsun-Kwan Yeung;Brittany M. Martinez

  • Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube Spectroscopy in Live Cells: Towards Long‐Term Labels and Optical Sensors

    Daniel A. Heller;Seunghyun Baik;Thomas E. Eurell;Michael S. Strano

  • Size-dependent cellular uptake and expulsion of single-walled carbon nanotubes: single particle tracking and a generic uptake model for nanoparticles.

    Hong Jin;Daniel A Heller;Richa Sharma;Michael S Strano

  • A vector-free microfluidic platform for intracellular delivery

    Armon Reza Sharei;Janeta Zoldan;Andrea Adamo;Woo Young Sim

  • Single-particle tracking of endocytosis and exocytosis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in NIH-3T3 cells.

    Hong Jin;Daniel A. Heller;Michael S. Strano

  • Molecular recognition using corona phase complexes made of synthetic polymers adsorbed on carbon nanotubes

    Jingqing Zhang;Markita P. Landry;Paul W. Barone;Jong Ho Kim;Jong Ho Kim

  • Multimodal optical sensing and analyte specificity using single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Daniel A. Heller;Hong Jin;Brittany M. Martinez;Brittany M. Martinez;Dhaval Patel;Dhaval Patel

  • Using Raman Spectroscopy to Elucidate the Aggregation State of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Daniel A. Heller;Paul W. Barone;John P. Swanson;Rebecca M. Mayrhofer

  • Concomitant Length and Diameter Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Daniel A. Heller;Rebecca M. Mayrhofer;Seunghyun Baik;Yelena V. Grinkova

  • Multimodal biomedical imaging with asymmetric single-walled carbon nanotube/iron oxide nanoparticle complexes.

    Jong Hyun Choi;Freddy T. Nguyen;Paul W. Barone;Daniel A. Heller

  • Detection of single-molecule H2O2 signalling from epidermal growth factor receptor using fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Hong Jin;Daniel A. Heller;Marie Kalbacova;Jong-Ho Kim

  • The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in single-walled carbon nanotube near-infrared fluorescence sensors for biological detection

    Jong-Ho Kim;Daniel A. Heller;Hong Jin;Paul W. Barone

  • Understanding the Nature of the DNA-Assisted Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy

    Michael S. Strano;Ming Zheng;Anand Jagota;G. Bibiana Onoa

  • Single Molecule Detection of Nitric Oxide Enabled by d(AT)15 DNA Adsorbed to Near Infrared Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Jingqing Zhang;Ardemis A. Boghossian;Paul W. Barone;Alina Rwei

  • A Carbon Nanotube Reporter of miRNA Hybridization Events In Vivo.

    Jackson D. Harvey;Prakrit V. Jena;Hanan A. Baker;Hanan A. Baker;Gül H. Zerze

  • Near‐Infrared Fluorescent Sensors based on Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Life Sciences Applications

    Ardemis A. Boghossian;Jingqing Zhang;Paul W. Barone;Nigel F. Reuel

  • P-selectin is a nanotherapeutic delivery target in the tumor microenvironment.

    Yosi Shamay;Moshe Elkabets;Moshe Elkabets;Hongyan Li;Janki Shah

  • Resonant Raman excitation profiles of individually dispersed single walled carbon nanotubes in solution

    S.K. Doorn;D.A. Heller;P.W. Barone;M.L. Usrey

Frequent Co-Authors

Moon-Ho Ham
Moon-Ho Ham Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Ming Zheng
Ming Zheng National Institute of Standards and Technology
Seunghyun Baik
Seunghyun Baik Sungkyunkwan University
Zhen Gu
Zhen Gu Zhejiang University
Anand Jagota
Anand Jagota Lehigh University
Robert E. Schwartz
Robert E. Schwartz Cornell University
Jeetain Mittal
Jeetain Mittal Lehigh University

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