After a postdoctoral fellowship with Tim Mitchison at UCSF and then Harvard Medical School, Swedlow established his own laboratory in 1998 at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow.
He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 and named Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology in 2007.
He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012 and appointed an Honorary OBE in 2021.
[1] Swedlow's research[2] focuses on mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation during mitotic cell division[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][excessive citations] and the development of software tools for accessing, processing, sharing and publishing large scientific image datasets.
[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][excessive citations] He leads OME, an international consortium that develops and releases open source software for biological imaging and Glencoe Software, which commercialises and customises OME technology for use in academic and biopharmaceutical research (e.g., Columbus from PerkinElmer, CellLibrarian from Yokogawa, and Amira from Thermo Fisher Scientific.