Hugo Botelho
Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolHugo Botelho is an assistant professor and scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in cell biology, high-content microscopy, and drug discovery for cystic fibrosis. He leads the High-Throughput Screening Facility at the University of Lisbon, delivering instrumentation, assay design, and bioimage analysis to academic and industry users and providing some 5,000 equipment-hours annually. Hugo combines hands-on screening expertise with software development and data science to turn large imaging datasets into actionable therapeutic insights, particularly through siRNA and small-molecule screens. His work bridges basic mechanistic studies of CFTR trafficking with translational efforts to identify druggable targets and bioactive compounds. As a principal investigator and lecturer he represents his institution in national and international research infrastructure consortia. Less obvious: his background in protein folding and amyloid research gives him an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective on molecular pathology and assay design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Biochemistry, 18, Licenciatura, Biochemistry, 18 at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaPhD, Biochemistry, Approved by unanimity, PhD, Biochemistry, Approved by unanimity at ITQB-UNL
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
fiji10
microscopy9
shiny8
imagej7
throughput7
image-analysis7
github6
r6
plotly6
image-processing6
image6
bioconductor3
r-package2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hmbotelho/ImageJ-scripts
Sep 2016 - Mar 2024
ImageJ / Fiji image analysis scripts
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years 6 months
image-analysisimageimagejfijiimage-processing
hmbotelho/htmrenamer_testdata
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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