Annette Salmeen

Annette Salmeen (born 1974) is an American biochemist who also won an Olympic gold medal in swimming. A competitive swimmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan, she swam for the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was an NCAA champion in the 200 yard butterfly and also worked in a protein crystallography laboratory, and at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she earned a gold medal as a heats swimmer on the United States 4 by 200 meter freestyle relay. After a chemistry degree in 1997 she took a Rhodes Scholarship to study biochemistry at Oxford, where she earned her doctorate in 2001 and set club swimming records. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and a project scientist at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and in 2022 she returned to Stanford to teach in the Human Biology programme.