Daniel Heller is a Damon Runyon Fellow in Robert S. Langer's laboratory at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. He obtained his BA in History from Rice University in 2000 and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 2010. His work is focused on nanoscale tools for detecting and treating human diseases. He will enter a faculty position at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell Medical School in New York City in 2012.