Caetano Reis e Sousa
Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa is a Portuguese scientist who is a principal group leader at the Francis Crick Institute.
Education
Reis e Sousa was educated at Atlantic College in Wales, Imperial College London 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.Career and research
After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, with Ronald Germain, he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1998. He headed the Immunobiology Laboratory which became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015. He is also a visiting professor of Immunology at Imperial College London and King's College London and honorary professor at University College London.Reis e Sousa's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury. He has helped to define the cells and pathways involved in innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi and dead cells.