Caetano Reis e Sousa
Caetano Reis e Sousa (* 1968 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese immunologist. He is known for research on dendritic cells .
Caetano Reis e Sousa studied biology at Imperial College London and received her PhD in immunology from Oxford in 1992. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . From 1998 he conducted research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London with his own laboratory and, after its integration in 2015, at the Francis Crick Institute where he is group leader. He is also professor of immunology at Imperial College London and honorary professorships at King's College London and University College London.
Reis e Sousa discovered that the skeletal structure of cells, made up of actin filaments, sends signals to the immune system when, for example, cells die. Much of the information converges in the dendritic cells of the immune system, whose coordination role Reis e Sousa is researching.
In 2017 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize . In 2006 he became a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2009 he became an officer of the Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada . In 2008 he received the Liliane Bettencourt Prize. He has been a member of the Royal Society since 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Reis e Sousa, Caetano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |