Bernardi et al. proposed a method for the in vitro photothermal ablation of medulloblastoma and glioma cell lines using anti-HER2 and anti-IL13Ra2 antibody labeled nanoshells (core: 100-nm silica, shell: 10-nm gold) with peak light absorption at 800 nm in the NIR region. Here, ERBB2 is linked to medulloblastoma.