Caetano Reis e Sousa is Assistant Research Director and Principal Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute, where he heads the Immunobiology Laboratory. His research focuses on the mechanisms involved in sensing infection, cancer, and tissue injury, helping to define the cells and pathways responsible for innate immune detection of RNA viruses, fungi, and dead cells.
Dr. Reis e Sousa earned his BSc from Imperial College London (1989) and a DPhil from Oxford University (1992). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH, he established his lab in 1998 at the ICRF, which later became CRUK’s London Research Institute and is now part of The Francis Crick Institute.
He is a member of EMBO, a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, The Royal Society, and The Royal Society of Biology. His accolades include the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2017) and the Bial Award in Biomedicine (2019). In 2009, he was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Sant’Iago da Espada by Portugal. Beyond his role at the Crick, he serves as Visiting Professor at Imperial College and King’s College London, honorary professor at University College London, and co-founder of Adendra Therapeutics.