Linda A Sherman

Linda A. Sherman (born 1950) is an American immunologist who researches the role of T cells in autoimmunity, particularly type 1 diabetes, in transplant rejection and in the response to tumor cells. She spent most of her career at Scripps Research (from 1978), where she has been a professor (now emeritus) of immunology and microbial sciences since 1997. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists and served as the society's president in 2014–15.

Early life and education Sherman was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, to European parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1947; her father had survived Auschwitz and her mother had also been incarcerated in a labor camp during the Second World War. They ran a small business selling shoes. Sherman's first language was Yiddish. She attended Samuel J. Tilden High School and then read physics at Barnard College.