Caetano Reis e Sousa | |
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Born | Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa 1968 (age 54–55) [1] |
Education | Atlantic College |
Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Awards | EMBO Member (2006) [2] Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Immunology [3] |
Institutions | Francis Crick Institute Imperial College London Imperial Cancer Research Fund National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
Thesis | Phagocytosis of antigens by Langerhans cells |
Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Austyn |
Website | www |
Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa (born 1968) [1] FRS FMedSci is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute [3] [4] [5] [6] and a professor of Immunology at Imperial College London. [7]
Reis e Sousa was educated at Atlantic College in Wales, [6] Imperial College London (BSc) and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992 for research on dendritic cells, and the phagocytosis of antigens by Langerhans cells supervised by Jonathan Austyn. [8]
After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the United States, with Ronald Germain, he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in 1998. [9] He headed the Immunobiology Laboratory which became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015. [9] He is also a professor of Immunology at Imperial College London [10] [7] and honorary professor at University College London (UCL) and King's College London. [9]
Caetano's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury. [9] He has helped to define the cells and pathways involved in innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi and dead cells. [9] [11] [12] [13]
Reis e Sousa was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019, and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) [2] and was made an Officer of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada by the Government of Portugal in 2009. [9] He was awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2017. [1]
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