António A. de Freitas is an immunologist

Immunology

Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

. He is Portuguese, born in Cuamba

Cuamba

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, Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

. He earned his M.D. in 1970 from the University of Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal

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, and his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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, Scotland, UK. He is Professor

Professor

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 at the Pasteur Institute

Pasteur Institute

The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax...

, Paris

Paris

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, France where he directs a research unit Pasteur and a URA CNRS. He was head of the Department of Immunology of the Pasteur Institute from 1997-2000.
His major scientific contributions are in the area of lymphocyte

Lymphocyte

A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system.Under the microscope, lymphocytes can be divided into large lymphocytes and small lymphocytes. Large granular lymphocytes include natural killer cells...

 homeostasis

Homeostasis

Homeostasis is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition of properties like temperature or pH...

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Publications

• Freitas has been involved in over 130 publications. The full list can be found here http://www.pasteur.fr/externe2.html.