Jean-frederic Viret

Biography

Dr. Viret, a Ph.D. plant molecular biologist by training, has worked for approximately two decades in corporate finance within the life sciences industry. Before joining Coherus as Chief Financial Officer in September 2014, he held the title of CFO at diaDexus, Inc., a cardiovascular diagnostics company, at CareDx, Inc. (formerly XDx, Inc.), a molecular diagnostics company, and at Anesiva, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Prior, he worked in finance at Tularik, and business assurance services at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In addition to a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg), Dr. Viret has a B.S. in Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interest

plant molecular biology and life sciences