Partner
Fred Cohen
Partner and Chairman, MD, DPhil, Monograph Capital
- Firm
- Monograph Capital
- Title
- Partner and Chairman, MD, DPhil
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 19 September 2026
About
Fred Cohen is a Founder and member of the Investment Committee of Monograph, which he co-founded in 2021. Prior to Monograph, he was Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Vida Ventures, and Managing Partner at TPG Biotechnology, where he initiated TPG’s venture efforts in biotechnology and life sciences in 2001. Earlier, Fred was a Professor at UCSF, where he served as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and led research in prionbiology, drug design, bioinformatics, and heteropolymer chemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has received several awards, including the Burroughs-Wellcome New Initiatives in Malaria Award, the LVMH Science Pour L’Art Prize, and the Searle Scholars Award. Fred graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1978, received his D.Phil. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1980, earned his M.D. from Stanford M
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