Adam Salmon
American scientist
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Adam Salmon is the Associate Director of Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies, and Professor of Molecular Medicine and the Joe. R. and Teresa Lozano Long Distinguished Chair in Metabolic Biology at the University of Texas San Antonio.[1] He also serves as Co-Director of the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging.[2]
Salmon attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Biological Sciences in 1997 and 2000, respectively.[1] He then moved to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where he received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2007. He continued as a postdoc at the University of Texas San Antonio until 2011, when he joined the faculty.[1]
Salmon is serving from 2025-2026 as President of the American Aging Association, the largest scientific society devoted to the study of the biology of aging in the United States of America.[3][4] In 2018 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Aging Association.[5] Since 2023, he has co-directed the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging with Dr. Randy Strong.[6] Since 2015, Salmon has served on the Editoral Board of the Journals of Gerontology Biological Sciences.[7]