Robert W. McCord

• Appointment in Prof. Mattice's group: Graduate student, 1974-1979.
• Ph. D. Dissertation: "Helix-Coil Transitions of Homopolypeptides Induced by Salts and Detergents", 1979 (Biochemistry, LSU). Dr. McCord also has an M. D. from Tulane University.
• Current positions: Chief-of-Staff, Elmwood Medical Center, Metairie, Louisiana, and owner of Highland Square Physicians, River Ridge, Louisiana
• Topic of research with Prof. Mattice: Conformation of polypeptides

Publications coauthored with Prof. Mattice

• Maroun, R.C.; McCord, R.W.; Mattice, W.L. "Triangular Matrix Representation of Dimensionless Helical Hydrophobic Moment Ratios" Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 1986, 8, 73-78.
• McCord, R.W.; Madison, E.L.; Mattice, W.L. "Experimental Characterization of Poly(hydroxyalkyl-L-glutamine) Conformations in Aqueous Calcium Chloride and Sodium Perchlorate Solutions" Biopolymers 1980, 19, 1923-1941.
• Mattice, W.L.; McCord, R.W.; Shippey, P.M. "Disorder-Order Transitions Induced in Anionic Homopolypeptides by Cationic Detergents" Biopolymers 1979, 18, 723-730.
• McCord, R.W.; Blakeney, E.W., Jr.; Mattice, W.L. "Conformational Changes Induced in Ionized Poly(L-arginine) and Poly(L-histidine) by Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate" Biopolymers 1977, 16, 1319-1329.