Bio
Dr. McIntosh has over 20 years’ experience in health R&D and consulting. Before EmPowerYu she was a Managing Scientist at Exponent, a leading scientific and engineering company. As a Managing Scientist, she worked with and built interdisciplinary teams for medical device clients, health effects research, and product and chemicals testing. While at Exponent, Laura received a grant from the British government to research a proposed connection between pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease, and she managed teams in multiple locations in the US and UK. After taking care of her mother during her mother's final months, Laura started EmPowerYu to take advantage of her experience in problem solving, aging research, and healthcare technology development. Dr. McIntosh has experience in two prior startups, AvaCore and Grahn Industries, as well as her own consulting company, SafetyTox, LLC. She has a PhD in Environmental Neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she worked in an Alzheimer's Disease research lab. She did postpoctoral work at Stanford University in a neurochemistry laboratory that looked at the effect of stress hormones on the brain, and she participated in Business School /Biology Department Entrepreneurship teams.