Daniel Heller

Dr. Daniel A. Heller, PhD, is Head of the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory, Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chair, and an Associate Member in the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University. His work focuses on the development of nanoscale technologies for the treatment, diagnosis, and research of cancer. Dr. Heller obtained his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010, working in the laboratory of Michael Strano. He completed a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Robert Langer at MIT in 2012. He is a 2012 recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, a 2017 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research awardee, a 2018 American Cancer Society Research Scholar, and a 2018 NSF CAREER Awardee.