Laura Mcintosh

Dr. McIntosh has over 20 years’ experience in health R&D and consulting. Before founding EmPowerYu she was a Managing Scientist at Exponent, a leading scientific and engineering consulting company. At Exponent, she worked with and built interdisciplinary teams for medical device clients, health effects research, and product and chemicals testing. She wrote the grant and managed a multi-year Parkinson's Disease toxicology study for the British government that involved teams in the UK and US. Dr. McIntosh has experience in two prior startups, as well as her own consulting company, SafetyTox, LLC. She has a PhD in Environmental Neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and did her thesis work in the Medical School Alzheimer's Disease research lab. She moved to Stanford for postdoctoral work in a neurochemistry laboratory, designing oxidation assays to characterize the effect of stress hormones on neurons. At Stanford she participated in Business School /Biology Department Entrepreneurship teams.

After taking care of her mother during her mother's final months, Laura started EmPowerYu to address the need for remote caregivers to have independent data from the home of medically vulnerable people.