# Tomás McKenna (@tomasmckenna.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/tomasmckenna.bsky.social
Headline: Juggling software development, neuroscience and entrepreneurship.

## About

I'm a Swirish scientist working at https://mother.technology , an XR focused digital healthcare start-up, in Stockholm, Sweden. I am a driven, enthusiastic person with a high motivation to always do my best.

After my Ph.D. on disease mechanisms in premature ageing at KI, I did a postdoc on the stem cell niche. This split into working on the branching morphogenesis of the mammary gland, which branched out into quitting my post-doc to start a deep-tech company using VR for mental health treatments.

It's a long story...

English is my mother-tongue, I also speak Swedish fluently, have good German, and know beagán beag Gaeilge. When not researching, I enjoy Brazilian ju-jitsu (pandemics allowing...), climbing, skiing, photography and microscopy.

## Career

- **Co-CEO // CIO at Mother.** (Oct 2022 - Present)
- **Co-Founder/Co-CEO at Mother.** (Dec 2021 - Oct 2022)
  A deep-tech, hard-science, mental health company of neuroscientists, biotechnologists and software engineers. https://mother.technology
- **Lab tech at Karolinska University Hospital** (Apr 2020 - Aug 2020)
  Worked nights doing C19 PCR tests, at the lab with the nicest views ever.
- **Doctoral Researcher/Postdoc at Karolinska Institutet (and a bit at the University of Helsinki kind of)** (May 2016 - Jul 2019)
  Postdoc that started focusing on lamina and cell morphology, split off into branching morphogenesis and ended prematurely when I left to start-up.
- **Chemist at Karolinska Institutet** (Jun 2008 - May 2010)

## Skills

### Interpersonal
- English
### Other
- Immunofluorescence
- Laboratory Skills
- Microsurgery
- Molecular & Cellular Biology

## Projects

- **IF**

## Publications

- Skin Disease in Laminopathy-Associated Premature Aging — Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Aug 2015) http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/jid2015295a.html
- Overexpression of Lamin B Receptor Results in Impaired Skin Differentiation — PLOS ONE (Jun 2015) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128917
- Transgene silencing of the Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome mutation results in a reversible bone phenotype, whereas resveratrol treatment does not show overall beneficial effects — FASEB (Apr 2015) http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2015/04/15/fj.14-269217.abstract
- Epithelial Stem Cells in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome — Karolinska Institutet (Jan 2015) http://hdl.handle.net/10616/42296
- Low Levels of the Reverse Transactivator Fail to Induce Target Transgene Expression in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells — Plos one (Aug 2014) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104098
- Embryonic expression of the common progeroid lamin A splice mutation arrests postnatal skin development — Aging Cell (Dec 2013) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305605
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome — InTech (2013) http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/hutchinson-gilford-progeria-syndrome
- Laminopathies — InTech (2013) http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/laminopathies
- Stem cell depletion in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome. — Aging Cell (2011) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21902803
- Oxidative stress on mammalian cell cultures during recombinant protein expression — Linköping University Electronic Press (2009) http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:277517

## Credentials

- Felasa C

## Education

- **Karolinska institutet** — Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (2010 - 2015)
- **Linköping University** — Tekn. Lic. (2004 - 2008)
- **Dublin City University** — B.Sc (1999 - 2003)

## Courses

- Process analytical technology
- Developmental Biology for Regenerative Medicine
- Applied Bioinformatics
- To communicate science in different contexts
- Philosophy of science and research ethics
- Laboratory animal science
- Basic Laboratory safety
- Functional Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging (fFMI) in biomedical research
- Pathology
- Modern methods in DNA sequencing
- Gene Expression Analysis
- The Biology of Inflammation
- Basic Course in Medical Statistics
- Surgical Techniques in Rat and Mouse

## Languages

- English (native)
- Swedish (professional working)
- German (limited working)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasmckenna