Caetano Reis e Sousa

Caetano Maria Pacheco Pais dos Reis e Sousa (born 1968)

Education Reis e Sousa was educated at Atlantic College in Wales,

Career and research 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. and King's College London and honorary professor at University College London (UCL).

Reis e Sousa's research centres on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer and tissue injury.

Awards and honours 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) in 2008, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2017 and the Bial Award in Biomedicine in 2019 .