Alan Sher

Alan Sher is an American immunologist who long led the Immunobiology Section and the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where he was named an NIH Distinguished Investigator. His research illuminated how the host immune system recognizes and responds to parasitic infections such as schistosomiasis and toxoplasmosis, informing vaccine and immunoregulation science. He is documented among Jewish biomedical scientists in reference directories of the field; further personal biographical detail is not publicly recorded.