Head of the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine. All opinions are my own.https://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3mk4y4g4ros2zQuantum defects make carbon nanotubes better! A massive expansion of quantum well defect chemistry that can enable quantum nanosensors for cancer and many other applications. Congratulations Stanislav Piletsky, Erin Keblish, Alec Goffin and collaborators! Open access! https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-026-01054-z23 Apr 2026 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4y4g4ros2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3mhb3fhmjjc2aWhere did carbon nanotubes go? Were they just hype? No! They’re in your lithium ion batteries and more! “Industrial Adoption of Carbon Nanotubes” - Nano Letters - Open access! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c0557217 Mar 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhb3fhmjjc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3mg3yw4n2722xOn the cover of this month's issue of Nature Nanotechnology! Our nanosensor + AI-based liquid biopsy (blood test) for brain tumors that also enables the discovery of new biomarkers. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-025-02080-202 Mar 2026 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3yw4n2722xhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3mcawdb3dzk2zThanks to MSKCC for supporting and explaining our work to detect brain cancers earlier with nanosensor/AI “machine perception” so that they are easier to treat, and hopefully cure! https://www.mskcc.org/news/new-liquid-biopsy-using-ai-nanosensors-diagnose-brain-tumors12 Jan 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcawdb3dzk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3mbnrcxvcxc2lThanks Arde for highlighting our paper!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jan 2026 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbnrcxvcxc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3m7dyoctcuk2nCongrats to our team on building a technology that enables virtually all PROTAC protein degrader drugs to be delivered to tumors! “Tumor microenvironment–targeted PROTAC nanoparticle self-assembly broadly predicted by structural descriptors” | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu229206 Dec 2025 21:58 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7dyoctcuk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3lzhxsepqqc2xCongratulations to former lab members Chen Chen, @anamarieperea.bsky.social, and colleagues who found that nanoparticles can take advantage of the lysosome to sequester drugs to control/prolong their release into the cell and increase anti-tumor efficacy! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5c0910023 Sep 2025 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzhxsepqqc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/danielheller.bsky.social/post/3lt3ifxndos2uCongrats to recent grad Stephen Ruiz and colleagues on our lab’s paper describing a new cancer target, and a new nanotherapeutic strategy to use it to treat patients! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.5c0027303 Jul 2025 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:mzblhroamucyckolgk5oxphb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt3ifxndos2u