:Irwin Sherman

Sherman, the son of Russian immigrants Morris and Anna Sherman, graduated from James Monroe High School and enrolled in City College of New York (CCNY) with the goal of becoming a high school biology teacher. Influenced by his professors (James Dawson, William Tavolga, and Herman Spieth particularly) Sherman pursued a graduate degree at University of Florida under the tutelage of W.C. Allee. Sherman's studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Army as a medical technician. After training at Fort Dix, Fort Sam Houston, and Valley Forge Army Hospital he was sent to overseas to work in army laboratories in Austria and Germany. Upon completion of his military service Sherman chose to teach high school in Yonkers rather than return to graduate school in Florida. While taking graduate courses through CCNY Sherman spent the summer of 1957 at Marine Biological Laboratory where he met his future wife, Vilia Gay Turner.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9e81NrD0FIC|title=Reflections on a Century of Malaria Biochemistry|series=Advances in parasitology|first=Irwin|last=Sherman|publisher=Academic Press|year=2011|volume=67|pmid=18940418|isbn=978-0-08-092183-9|pages=49–50|doi=10.1016/S0065-308X(08)00401-6}}{{cite news|title=Homemaker later became Riverside lawyer, judge; 68|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/29/homemaker-later-became-riverside-lawyer-judge-68/|newspaper=U-T San Diego|accessdate=November 28, 2014|first=Blanca|last=Gonzalez|date=December 29, 2009}}{{cite news|title=SHERMAN – Deaths Announcements|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/109407/sherman|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=November 28, 2014}} In pursuit of his growing interest in protozoology, Sherman enrolled at Northwestern University to earn his doctorate.{{cite web|url=http://dna.kdna.ucla.edu/parasite_course-old/personal%20stories/sherman/how_did_i_get_into_my_research_o.aspx|title=Becoming a Parasitologist: A Personal History of Irwin W. Sherman}}

In 1962 Sherman was recruited by his former professor Herman Spieth to join the faculty of University of California, Riverside as an assistant professor. In 1966 Sherman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of molecular and cellular biology.{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=irwin+sherman&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2014&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=1&x=21&y=12|title=Search Results|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} He was promoted to associate professor in 1967 and full professor in 1970. For many years Sherman taught a basic course in parasitology for pre-med students.{{cite journal|title=Transcription of Oral History Interview With Ivan J. Thomason|date=May 22, 1998|url=http://www.ucrhistory.ucr.edu/pdf/thomason.pdf|first=Jan|last=Erickson|publisher=University of California, Riverside|page=33}} Sherman reports that while teaching science courses for non-majors, he gave lectures dressed in costume to impersonate famous scientists to increase student interest.{{cite web|url=http://academy.asm.org/index.php/news-views/interviews-with-fellows/389-irwin-sherman|title=Irwin Sherman|website=American Society for Microbiology}} By 1981 Sherman became the dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and would go on to serve as executive vice chancellor of UCR. After retiring from teaching in 2005 Sherman joined the Scripps Research Institute and at present is a visiting professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego.{{cite web|url=http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Sherman.html|title=IRWIN W. SHERMAN|website=University of California, Riverside|date=February 2013}}

Sherman was the author of several books and more than a hundred academic papers. Sherman is most known for popular science books about microbiology with particular emphasis on malariology.{{cite web|url=http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu/2012/08/17/new-book-tells-story-of-10-year-old-malaria-project/|title=New book tells story of 10-year-old malaria project|date=August 17, 2012|website=University of California}} In 2005 Sherman edited a textbook, Molecular approaches to malaria, noted for its inclusion of material following the 2002 complete genomic mapping of Plasmodium falciparum.{{cite journal|title=Book Review|journal=Immunology and Cell Biology|year=2006|volume=84|issue=3|pages=332|doi=10.1111/j.1440-1711.2006.01438.x|first=Brendan S.|last=Crabb|author-link=Brendan Crabb}}{{cite journal|journal=Journal of Clinical Pathology|date=November 2006|volume=59|issue=11|pages=1228|doi=10.1136/jcp.2005.035782|pmc=1860520|title=Molecular approaches to malaria|author=T Planche}} Sherman's 2007 book Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World has been commented upon for its approachable style, having been written for novices and casual readers rather than academic audiences.{{cite journal|first1=Paul S.|last1=Sehdev|journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases|title=Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World By Irwin W. Sherman|year=2008|volume=47|issue=2|page=299|doi=10.1086/589292|last2=Sehdev|first2=Paul S.|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|url=http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2008/01/03/12-diseases-that-altered-history|title=12 Diseases That Altered History|first=Matthew|last=Shulman|date=January 3, 2008|journal=U.S. News & World Report}}{{cite web|url=http://www.historyinreview.org/iws_12dcw.html|first=Herbert|last=White|date=February 18, 2009|website=History in Review|title=Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World}} Similarly, his 2009 The Elusive Malaria Vaccine has been reviewed as being engaging for the lay audience as it describes the history of malaria, particularly in the search for a vaccine.{{cite journal|title=Seeking Success—The Search for an Effective Malaria Vaccine|first=Jean E.|last=Feagin|page=202|journal=Applied Biosafety|volume=14|issue=4|year=2009|doi=10.1177/153567600901400409|s2cid=79463188 |url=http://www.absa.org/abj/abj/091404FeaginBookReview.pdf|access-date=2015-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104025040/http://www.absa.org/abj/abj/091404FeaginBookReview.pdf|archive-date=2015-01-04|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|title=The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage? By Irwin W. Sherman|journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases|year=2010|volume=50|issue=6|pages=941|first=Robert L.|last=Atmar|doi=10.1086/650734|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|title=The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage?|last=Hoots|first=Rita|date=July 2009|journal=NSTA Recommends|page=64|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/44961095/elusive-malaria-vaccine-miracle-mirage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104032129/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/44961095/elusive-malaria-vaccine-miracle-mirage|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-01-04|via=EBSCOHost}} Described by one reviewer as "a story for all curious readers", Sherman's 2011 Magic Bullets to Conquer Malaria was criticized for a lack of either scientific or historical rigor although the book tells interesting stories of malariology.{{cite journal|title=Magic Bullets to Conquer Malaria|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition|volume=50|issue=34|pages=7731–7732|first=Anne|last=Robert|doi=10.1002/anie.201103861|year=2011}}

• {{cite book|title=Molecular approaches to malaria|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=ASM Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-55581-330-7|oclc=59280201}}
• {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/twelvediseasesth0000sher|title=Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World|publisher=ASM Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-55581-466-3|oclc=141178241|url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book|title=The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle Or Mirage?|publisher=ASM Press|year=2009|isbn=978-1-55581-515-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEo9AQAAIAAJ|oclc=300397208}}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLDzQwAACAAJ|title=Magic Bullets to Conquer Malaria: From Quinine to Qinghaosu|publisher=ASM Press|year=2011|isbn=978-1-55581-543-1|oclc=710888834}}
• {{cite book|title=The Malaria Genome Projects: Promise, Progress, and Prospects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CawZNe5KiZMC|publisher=World Scientific|year=2012|isbn=978-1-84816-903-6|oclc=809409769}}

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