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 was promoted to Immunology in Oxford in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. From 1998 onwards he researched at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London with his own laboratory and after his integration in 2015 at the Francis Crick Institute, where he is a group leader. He is also Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London and has honorary professorships at King's College London and University College London.

Reis e Sousa discovered that the skeletal framework of the cells, consisting of actin filaments, sends signals to the immune system when cells die, for example. Many of the information gathered in the dendritic cells of the immune system, whose co-ordination role is researching rice and Sousa.

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 Award. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Single-level Edit source text Standard data (person): LCCN: n2009180512 VIAF: 78878072 | Wikipedia People Search | No GND person record. Last Review: July 25, 2017. GND Name Entry: 1110691149 (AKS)

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