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Dr. Waugh Ruggles brings to Catalyst strong experience in structural biology, biochemistry and protease engineering. Sandra received her PhD in biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Craik. Her graduate work focused on serine proteases and the elements of their substrate recognition. She solved the first three dimensional structure of granzyme B, a protease that regulates cell death and further characterized many of the determinants of its specificity. Sandra is also a past winner of the garage.com student business plan contest for Quicksilver Genomics, and was an active participant in the formation of UCSF's "Idea to IPO...and Beyond" class. In 2004, she was named to the MIT Technology Review's TR100- a list of 100 top innovators under 35. | 