Caetano Reis e Sousa

Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa (born 1968)[3] is a Portuguese scientist who is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute[2][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.

[9] Caetano's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury.

[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)[1] and was made an Officer of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada by the Government of Portugal in 2009.

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