Fred Cohen is a venture capital investor at Vida Ventures who spent over 30 years as a practicing physician and academic leader at UCSF, including roles as division chief of Endocrinology & Metabolism and research scientist, while also being elected to the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his pioneering work in prion diseases and protein folding. Before co-founding Vida Ventures, he founded and led TPG Biotechnology within the large private equity firm TPG, giving him experience investing from both private equity and venture capital perspectives.
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Vida Ventures is founded and led by physician-scientists who use a science-led, discipline-driven strategy to translate breakthrough biology into drugs, with co-founder Arjun Goyal emphasizing a patient-centric lens that asks what would change standard of care for specific diseases. The fund is known for being deeply involved in company creation and early strategic design—helping assemble founding teams, shape development plans, and design pivotal trials—rather than only writing checks into already-formed biotechs.
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