Jason Swedlow

Jason R. Swedlow
Born (1961-06-20) June 20, 1961 (age 63)
Los Angeles, CA
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, San Francisco
Known forOpen Microscopy Environment (OME)
AwardsBBSRC Innovator of the Year Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scientific career
FieldsCell Biology & Bioimage informatics
InstitutionsUniversity of Dundee
ThesisDistribution and Dynamics of DNA Topoisomerase II in Drosophila Chromosomes (1994)
Doctoral advisorDavid Agard & John Sedat
WebsiteOME
Research Profile

Jason Swedlow is an American-born cell biologist and light microscopist who is Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland. He is a co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment and Glencoe Software. In 2021, he joined Wellcome Leap as a Program Director.