| Caetano Reis e Sousa | |
| Birth Name: | Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa |
| Birth Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Fields: | Immunology |
| Workplaces: | Francis Crick Institute Imperial College London Imperial Cancer Research Fund National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| Education: | Atlantic College |
| Alma Mater: | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis Title: | Phagocytosis of antigens by Langerhans cells |
| Thesis Url: | https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1f69e0f0-1d08-4c2f-aa02-216231100f14 |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Jonathan Austyn |
| Awards: | EMBO Member (2006)[1] Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2017) |
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Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa (born 1968) is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute[2] [3] [4] and a professor of Immunology at Imperial College London.
Reis e Sousa was educated at Atlantic College in Wales,[4] 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.[5]
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. He headed the Immunobiology Laboratory which became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015. He is also a professor of Immunology at Imperial College London[6] and honorary professor at University College London (UCL) and King's College London.[7]
Caetano's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury.[7] He has helped to define the cells and pathways involved in innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi and dead cells.[7] [8] [9] [10]
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.[7] He was awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2017.[11]