Annette Salmeen

Annette Elizabeth Salmeen (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 7, 1974) is an American biochemist, a 1997 Rhodes Scholar and became a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Swimming career Salmeen was a competitive swimmer by the age of 9, and became a standout swimmer at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, where she was co-captain of the girls' swimming team for two years. While at Huron, Salmeen was three-time state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, and once in the 100-yard butterfly. She won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan. Salmeen was later inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006. During her four years at St John's College, Oxford, she was a member of the Oxford University Swimming Club, where she set three long-course records and six on the short-course. From 2005 to 2012, she was named to the board of the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Salmeen was also a project scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute before coming back to Stanford University in 2022, where she teaches and is a course coordinator in the Human Biology programme. She also teaches Health, Biology and Big Data at Stanford University. In addition to her athletic and academic work, Salmeen published important work on redox regulation of cysteine-based phosphates. She also completed a 2005 review in Antioxidants & Redox Signaling.