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Dr. McCord has been a member of our board of directors since February 2006 and Director of Science since April 2004. Dr. McCord, together with Dr. Irwin Fridovich, discovered Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) in 1969. For this work, Drs. McCord and Fridovich received the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute. Dr. McCord currently serves as Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). Dr. McCord received a lifetime achievement award from the Oxygen Society for outstanding contributions to the field of free radical biology and medicine in 1997. He is Honorary President of the International Society of Antioxidants in Nutrition and Health (ISANH). He chaired the Third International Conference on Superoxide Dismutases: Recent Advances and Clinical Applications, held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris in 2004, as well as earlier conferences in the series. Dr. McCord has published articles in a number of scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. | 