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Everything you wanted to know about your immune system but were afraid to ask. 2014/03/25
The immune system is the ultimate master of self-defence. Its actions protect us from pathogens and cancers while allowing us to peacefully co-exist with the trillions of harmless microbes that inhabit our body. How the cells and molecules of the immune system achieve this delicate balance is not fully understood but rapid progress in this area is leading to a picture that is fundamentally distinct from earlier views. This new understanding of immune function offers exciting prospects for the development of new vaccines and therapies for human disease.
Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa
Caetano Reis e Sousa obtained his DPhil in 1992 working with Jonathan Austyn at the University of Oxford on phagocytosis by dendritic cells. He subsequently spent five and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow with Ron Germain at the NIH where he studied various aspects of antigen presentation and T cell activation. In 1998, he joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, now known as Cancer Research UK.
