Jorge Botas


Alumni

Jorge Botas

Scientific Programmer
Alumni

Jorge is a Scientific Programmer at BCM with a BS on Biotechnology specialized in Bioinformatics from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). During undergraduate years, Jorge studied Molecular Evolution, Protein Engineering and Molecular Genomics while complementing his computational curriculum in Deep Learning. Also during this period, he participated in behavioral Drosophila studies in the context of neurodegenerative diseases at BCM. Jorge later acquired two years of experience as a Research Software Engineer leading the development of several open-source online tools. His current research focuses on providing in silico drug-repurposing strategies and aspires to shed light onto impact prediction of non-coding mutations in the context of complex polygenic diseases