In 2008, he joined the group of Caetano Reis e Sousa at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute and later joined the Francis Crick Institute, where he was awarded Marie Curie and EMBO long - term postdoctoral fellowships to investigate innate
immune receptors and signaling pathways that trigger dendritic cell activation and
drive T - cell
responses against viruses or
tumors.