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.^[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)^[1] 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.^[3]