Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Research and development decisions
Independent technical consulting
Better decisions from imperfect data.
Applied science, data and AI to answer real questions, from research choices to process changes to working tools.
How I work
Workflow projects can start here. Websites and reviews are scoped separately.
Where I can help
All services 
Small Business and Professional Services
Websites and everyday business tools
Industrial and Agriculture
Process decisions and techno-economic analysis
Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
Project records and review tools
Microbiome Commercialization
From R&D program to commercial decision tool: $180 → $25 per-sample analysis cost.
Employment work
Stormwater Workbench
A review and decision-support prototype for municipal stormwater information.
Prototype
Space Biomanufacturing TEA
A systems and economic analysis for NASA of lactic acid production in a space environment.
Consulting work
About the principal
I'm Vernon McIntosh, PhD. I work with teams at the intersection of science, data and implementation to turn complex questions into practical, evidence-led decisions.
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2010)
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Six granted US patents
Named co-inventor, plus published US and PCT applications
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Galleon™ Broiler Microbiome Intelligence, awarded after my tenure
Patents & Publications
Published work and patent records
Named co-inventor on six granted US patents for engineered yeast that produces succinate, and on published US and PCT applications, including microbiome analytics for animal nutrition. Doctoral research on the transcriptional response of microbial systems to chemical stressors. Everything below is on file and verifiable.
Patents & Applications
- US 2023/0298688 A1 Microbiome analytics such as for animal nutrition management
- US 11,821,021 B2 Yeast cells having reductive TCA pathway from pyruvate to succinate and overexpressing an exogenous NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase enzyme
- US 11,390,873 B2 Compositions and methods for succinate production
- US 11,041,176 B2 Yeast cells having reductive TCA pathway from pyruvate to succinate and overexpressing an exogenous NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase enzyme
- US 10,066,246 B2 Yeast cells having NADP(H)-dependent reductive TCA pathway from pyruvate to succinate
- US 9,850,507 B2 Yeast cells having reductive TCA pathway from pyruvate to succinate and overexpressing an exogenous NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase enzyme
- US 9,605,285 B2 Compositions and methods for succinate production
- US 2023/0193299 A1 Compositions and methods for succinate production
- WO 2021/243009 A1 Microbiome analytics such as for animal nutrition management
- WO 2014/018757 A1 Yeast cells having reductive TCA pathway from pyruvate to succinate and overexpressing an exogenous NAD(P)+ transhydrogenase enzyme
Get started
Bring the question or task.
Tell me what you want to improve, the evidence or material you already have and the result you need. We can decide whether the right next step is a website, a focused tool, an analysis or a narrower review.
