Fred Cohen, M.D., D.Phil, F.A.C.P.
Independent Director
Fred Cohen is a co-founder and senior managing director at Vida Ventures. Prior to Vida, he founded and was a partner at TPG Biotechnology, where he served 16 years and is now a senior advisor. Fred also was previously chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, he also held various clinical responsibilities as a research scientist, internist for hospitalized patients and consulting endocrinologist.
His research interests include structure-based drug design, prion diseases, computational biology and heteropolymer chemistry. Fred has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, is a co-inventor on more than 10 patents and has been an editor or editorial board member of several international scientific journals.
He currently serves in many scientific and advisory roles in the biotechnology field, including on the board of directors of CareDx Inc., Progyny Inc., Veracyte Inc., and UroGen Pharmaceuticals Ltd., as well as various private companies. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fred is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians.
Fred received his B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, his D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, his M.D. from Stanford University and his postdoctoral training and postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at UCSF.