Diogo Camacho

About Diogo Camacho

I am passionate about designing and building transformative computational platforms in biotech and pharma. Over the past 15+ years, I’ve been the first computational scientist, department head, and VP of computational sciences across startups, academic institutes, and growth-stage biotechs. I thrive in taking an early idea and turning it into a platform — algorithms, infrastructure, teams, and strategy that make the science investable and the pipeline executable.Highlights- Built and scaled computational platforms at Cellarity, Rheos, Wyss Institute- Serve as interim head of computational sciences teams across multiple new ventures, shaping computational data strategy, hiring and retaining top talent in computational biology, AI/ML, department budgeting- Published in Cell, Nature Communications, Cell Systems, with multiple patents in computational biology and ML.My current focus is on roles where computation is not a support function, but rather the engine of the company- Chief Computational Officer / C-level executive roles where I own computational strategy at scale- Origination and founding roles where computational-first biotech companies are conceived and built.

Experience

1. Senior Principal, Computation

   Flagship Pioneering

   Oct 2024 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US

   Act as Interim Head of Computational Sciences across multiple ventures, shaping scientific and strategic direction- Build and implement computational and data strategies for seed and early-stage companies- Partner with founding teams on platform design, infrastructure build-out, budgets, and investor-facing pitch decks- Mentor and develop junior computational scientists across the portfolio- Recruit senior computational leaders into early-stage biotech ventures to anchor long-term growth.

Education

• Virginia Tech

  Ph.D., Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

  2002 — 2007

• University of Lisbon

  B. Sc., Biochemistry

  1995 — 2001

Skills

• Bash
• Protein Chemistry
• Os X
• Rnaseq
• Statistics
• Lifesciences
• Computational Biology
• Protein Expression
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Microarray
• Sequencing
• Awk
• High Throughput Screening
• Cell Biology
• In Vitro
• Cell Culture
• Bioinformatics
• Qpcr
• Perl
• Biomarkers
• Genomics
• Pharmaceuticals
• Assay Development
• Linux
• Cell
• Data Analysis
• Genetics
• Elisa
• Western Blotting
• High Th
• Life Sciences
• Systems Biology
• R
• Molecular Biology
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Pcr
• Microsoft Office
• Science
• Biochemistry
• Biotechnology