Fred E. Cohen, M.D., D.Phil.
Fred E. Cohen, M.D. D.Phil. has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2015. Dr. Cohen is currently a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, where he previously served for over 15 years as a Partner and founder of TPG Biotechnology, a life science focused venture capital fund. Since July 2021, Dr. Cohen has served as a co-founder and Chairman of Monograph Capital Partners, a biotechnology venture capital fund. Since November 2017, he has served as a co-founder and senior managing director of Vida Ventures, LLC, a biotechnology venture capital fund. In addition, for three decades throughout his career, Dr. Cohen has been affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, where he held various clinical responsibilities, including as a research scientist, an internist for hospitalized patients, a consulting endocrinologist, and the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr. Cohen currently serves on the board of directors of the following public companies: Urogen Pharma Ltd. (since May 2017), CareDx, Inc. (since January 2003), Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc. (since September 2018), and lntellia Therapeutics, Inc. (since January 2019). Dr. Cohen also serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies and previously served on the board of directors of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from July 2013 to January 2019, Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. from May 2007 to November 2015, Roka Bioscience, Inc. from September 2009 to October 2017, Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. from May 2002 to May 2018, Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. from June 2013 to June 2019, Genomic Health Inc. from April 2002 to November 2019, and Veracyte, Inc. from 2007 to June 2021. Dr. Cohen received his B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, his D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and his M.D. from Stanford. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Cohen is a California licensed physician. We believe that Dr. Cohen is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his financial and extensive medical knowledge and experience.