Daniel A. Heller

15.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
134 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel A. Heller is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel A. Heller has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 59 papers in Materials Chemistry and 50 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Daniel A. Heller's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (51 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (20 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers). Daniel A. Heller is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (51 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (20 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers). Daniel A. Heller collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Daniel A. Heller's co-authors include Michael S. Strano, Paul W. Barone, Jin Hong, Seunghyun Baik, Yosi Shamay, Ryan M. Williams, Prakrit V. Jena, Daniel G. Anderson, Maurizio Scaltriti and Róbert Langer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel A. Heller

122 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Treating metastatic cancer with nanotechnology

2011 952 citations Daniel A. Heller, Róbert Langer et al. profile →
Near-infrared optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes

2004 788 citations Daniel A. Heller, Michael S. Strano et al. profile →
Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines

2021 738 citations Mandana T. Manzari, Yosi Shamay et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
P-selectin-targeted nanocarriers induce active crossing of the blood–brain barrier via caveolin-1-dependent transcytosis

2023 145 citations Janki Shah, Yosi Shamay et al. profile →
Detection of ovarian cancer via the spectral fingerprinting of quantum-defect-modified carbon nanotubes in serum by machine learning

2022 127 citations Mijin Kim, Chen Chen et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel A. Heller United States	53	5.1k	5.0k	3.4k	1.6k	1.4k	134	10.7k
Xinghua Shi China	64	6.5k 1.3×	4.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	251	13.9k
Samuel Achilefu United States	65	4.3k 0.9×	6.4k 1.3×	4.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	943 0.7×	337	14.8k
Yanlian Yang China	47	4.1k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	269	9.8k
Ji‐Ho Park South Korea	51	3.4k 0.7×	5.4k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	3.2k 2.0×	821 0.6×	228	11.4k
Chenjie Xu Singapore	62	4.9k 1.0×	6.2k 1.2×	3.9k 1.1×	4.1k 2.6×	1.3k 0.9×	223	15.5k
Igor Nabiev Russia	46	4.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.5×	3.3k 1.0×	884 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	303	8.7k
Chen Wang China	52	4.1k 0.8×	4.9k 1.0×	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	2.4k 1.7×	326	10.1k
Indrajit Roy India	56	6.4k 1.3×	5.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	156	12.2k
Wei Qian China	51	4.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	3.3k 2.3×	259	13.5k
Xiaohong Fang China	58	2.9k 0.6×	4.1k 0.8×	7.8k 2.3×	721 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	236	12.5k

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Silberman, Pedro C., et al.. (2025). Microenvironment actuated CAR T cells improve solid tumor efficacy without toxicity. Science Advances. 11(4). eads3403–eads3403. 6 indexed citations

Manzari, Mandana T., Xufen Yu, Quincey LaPlant, et al.. (2025). Tumor microenvironment–targeted PROTAC nanoparticle self-assembly broadly predicted by structural descriptors. Science Advances. 11(49). eadu2292–eadu2292.

Kolb, Annie, Kathleen McCortney, Craig Horbinski, et al.. (2025). Machine perception liquid biopsy identifies brain tumours via systemic immune and tumour microenvironment signature. Nature Nanotechnology. 21(2). 277–287. 1 indexed citations

Heller, Daniel A., et al.. (2025). Calcific periarthritis of the hand successfully treated with ultrasound-guided barbotage: A case report. Radiology Case Reports. 20(8). 4087–4091.

Chen, Chen, Scott A. McPhee, Tong Wang, et al.. (2025). Directed discovery of high-loading nanoaggregates enabled by drug-matched oligo-peptide excipients. Chem. 11(6). 102404–102404. 3 indexed citations

Heller, Daniel A., et al.. (2025). BIOM-07. microRNA-19 as a Biomarker of SHH Medulloblastoma Recurrence Using a Novel Single-Walled Carbon NanoTube (SWCNT) Optical NanoSensor. 1(Supplement_1).

Kim, Mijin, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Human and environmental safety of carbon nanotubes across their life cycle. Nature Reviews Materials. 9(5). 374–374. 1 indexed citations

Larney, Benedict Mc, Ali Yasin Sonay, Sébastien Monette, et al.. (2024). A pan-cancer dye for solid-tumour screening, resection and wound monitoring via short-wave and near-infrared fluorescence imaging. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 8(9). 1092–1108. 10 indexed citations

Yaari, Zvi, Ron Feiner, Arnaud Da Cruz Paula, et al.. (2024). Uterine washings as a novel method for early detection of ovarian cancer: Trials and tribulations. Gynecologic Oncology Reports. 51. 101330–101330. 2 indexed citations

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Kim, Mijin, et al.. (2023). Human and environmental safety of carbon nanotubes across their life cycle. Nature Reviews Materials. 9(1). 63–81. 62 indexed citations

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Chen, Chen, et al.. (2022). Merging data curation and machine learning to improve nanomedicines. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 183. 114172–114172. 65 indexed citations

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Kim, Mijin, Chen Chen, Peng Wang, et al.. (2022). Detection of ovarian cancer via the spectral fingerprinting of quantum-defect-modified carbon nanotubes in serum by machine learning. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 6(3). 267–275. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williams, Ryan M., Shi Chen, Thomas Vito Galassi, et al.. (2021). Harnessing nanotechnology to expand the toolbox of chemical biology. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(2). 129–137. 28 indexed citations

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Yaari, Zvi, Hanan Baker, Rune Frederiksen, et al.. (2020). Nanoreporter of an Enzymatic Suicide Inactivation Pathway. Nano Letters. 20(11). 7819–7827. 26 indexed citations

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Han, Sang Jun, Ryan M. Williams, Vivette D. D’Agati, et al.. (2020). Selective nanoparticle-mediated targeting of renal tubular Toll-like receptor 9 attenuates ischemic acute kidney injury. Kidney International. 98(1). 76–87. 78 indexed citations

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Lee, Michael A., Carlos M. Duarte, Vı́ctor M. Eguı́luz, et al.. (2019). Can Fish and Cell Phones Teach Us about Our Health?. ACS Sensors. 4(10). 2566–2570. 3 indexed citations

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Galassi, Thomas Vito, Prakrit V. Jena, Janki Shah, et al.. (2018). An optical nanoreporter of endolysosomal lipid accumulation reveals enduring effects of diet on hepatic macrophages in vivo. Science Translational Medicine. 10(461). 89 indexed citations

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Heller, Daniel A.. (2010). Central counterparties for OTC derivatives: Neither panacea nor placebo. 2(4). 294–294.

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Lewis, Ernest K., Freddy T. Nguyen, Daniel A. Heller, et al.. (2005). Color-blind fluorescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(15). 5346–5351. 30 indexed citations

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Heller, Daniel A., et al.. (2004). Patterned networks of mouse hippocampal neurons on peptide-coated gold surfaces. Biomaterials. 26(8). 883–889. 53 indexed citations

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