Caetano Reis e Sousa

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.^[7]

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.^[8] He headed the Immunobiology Laboratory which became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015.^[8] He is also a visiting professor of Immunology at Imperial College London^[9][10] 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.^[8] He has helped to define the cells and pathways involved in innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi and dead cells.^{[8][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)^[2] and was made an Officer of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada by the Government of Portugal in 2009.^[8] He was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences in 2008, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2017^[1] and the Bial Award in Biomedicine in 2019.