Dr. Jeff Chen is the Co-founder and CEO of Radicle Science. He’s the Founder and former Exec Director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative (one of the world’s 1st), which he grew to encompass over 40 faculty conducting research, education, and policy projects.

Jeff has experience as Founder, Managing Partner, Investor, Board Member, and Advisor to companies, not-for-profits, and venture firms in life science, sustainability, tech, and media. Dr. Chen has been featured in Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, VICE, CNN, TIME, NPR, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Politico, and he’s part of the Medical Team at Healthline Media (86M visitors/month). He’s a David Geffen Fellow, U.S. patent holder, Industry Mentor for the U.S. National Institutes of Health Innovation CORPs, and Chief Science Officer of the Wholistic Research and Education Foundation

Jeff earned his MD and MBA concurrently at UCLA on a full merit scholarship, following a B.S. at Cornell.