Featured Member
* Dr. Harold Han, Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer and The Happy Chemist at Vertosa
"The long history demonstrates SCC's intention to heal. The community is supportive and all desire the same outcome: how to make cannabis more accessible and reliable to patients. I can feel the intention thus trust I can do my best here."
Q&As
How/Why did you first become interested in medical cannabis?
There is a huge gap between the medical cannabis healing potential and its lack of mainstream application. As an emulsion chemist, I would like to leverage cannabis emulsion to delivery customized cannabinoids to patients easily, affordably and effectively.
What is your background in medical cannabis?
My Ph.D. focused on emulsion chemistry. I was a Senior Scientist at Bio-Rad to develop the whole chemistry system for Digital Droplet PCR. And I co-founded Vertosa as the leading cannabis emulsion provider to infused beverages. Medical cannabis is a new field for me and I am excited to contribute my knowhow and energy to this space.
What are you currently working on professionally? Personally?
At Vertosa, I lead our R&D team to advance on advanced cannabis emulsion development, understand its PK/PD impact on human and developing medical version of the emulsion product to help patients.
What attracted you to the SCC and/or what do you enjoy most about this community?
The long history demonstrates SCC's intention to heal. The community is supportive and all desire the same outcome: how to make cannabis more accessible and reliable to patients. I can feel the intention thus trust I can do my best here.
What are your hopes for the future of cannabis medicine?
Doctors and patients start to question the conventional & simplified FDA way to look at health and drug. This top-down, single molecule approach limits our ability to solve the disease root-cause. I believe in personalized polypharmacy and cannabis could be the first plant medicine that can truly unlock this new trend. If we can prove to the mainstream health that cannabis can be a regular, reliable medicine, we will create huge impact to the health of next generations.
Is there anything else about yourself that you would like to share?
In my free time, I like to do two categories of things: things that make me love myself and things that inspire me. Things that make me love myself: yoga, working-out, play golf and basketball. Things that inspire me: reading and talking to experts with deep knowledge in certain areas.
