Caetano Reis e Sousa obtained a BSc(Hons) in Biology in 1989 from Imperial College, London, and a DPhil in Immunology in 1992 from the University of Oxford. He subsequently trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, USA. In 1998, he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, now Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (LRI), as head of the Immunobiology Laboratory. He is currently a Senior Scientist at LRI and holds Honorary Professorships at University College London and Queen Mary, London.

Caetano’s research centres on the regulation of adaptive immunity by antigen-presenting cells and on the innate mechanisms involved in sensing pathogen presence.

His contributions have been widely recognised and he has won the BD Biosciences Prize of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (2002) and the Liliane Bettencourt for Life Sciences Award (2008). He is a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences (elected 2006) and a Member of EMBO (elected 2006).