At the standard model of electroweak interactions neutrinos are massless and
mixing among the neutrinos in different families is not predicted.
Also the standard model does not include gravity.
I discuss the first appearance of sterile neutrinos in D-brane models from string theories.
In particular, I focus on a 5-stack intersecting D6-brane string model from IIA orientifolds. The sterile neutrinos couple to the right handed neutrino and the left handed neutrino of a single family.
The existence of sterile neutrinos is independent of string RR tadpole cancellation conditions satisfaction.