Klinman, Norman In Memoriam 1937 to 2010 Norman Klinman, professor emeritus in The Scripps Research Institute Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, died on May 4, 2010. He was 73. Born on March 23, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Klinman earned a B.A. from Haverford College in 1958 and an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1962. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he later became professor in the School of Medicine. Klinman's postdoctoral years were spent at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London. He moved to California in 1978 to become a professor at The Scripps Research Institute, as well as adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego. For the next three decades, he provided seminal advances in the understanding the of human immune system in health and disease, authoring a total of nearly 200 scientific publications throughout his career. Klinman's awards included the Parke-Davis Award for Experimental Pathology and a National Institutes of Health Merit Award. In 2006, he was honored with the American Association of Immunologists Excellence in Mentoring Award, which recognized his important role in training dozens of scientists who today continue to explore the most important unanswered questions in the role of the immune system in disease. During the course of his career, Klinman served on numerous advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, scientific advisory boards of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Hybritech and Idec, and editorial boards of key scientific journals. He was Board President of KIT (Kids Included Together) -an organization that provides learning opportunities supporting recreation, child development, and youth enrichment programs to children with and without disabilities - from 2000 to 2003, and remained active in this organization after his term as president ended. Klinman is survived by his wife and Scripps Research colleague, Professor Linda A. Sherman, sons Andrew, Douglas, Theodore, and Matthew, and grandsons Alex, Jaime, and Max. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to KIT at www.kitonline.org. Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on May 19, 2010