[3][7][2] Martin served as the Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research and as president of the Tissue Culture Association and the Gerontological Society of America.
[citation needed] Martin's early work focused on the neurobiology of Wilson's disease and the function of caeruloplasmin, the underlying gene responsible for this disorder.
His group conducted genetic linking studies identifying loci associated with familial forms of Alzheimer's disease,[13][14] a discovery that led to the recognition of amyloid beta (Aβ) in the pathology of that disorder.
[15][3] Martin's group separately identified the genetic defect causing the aging disease Werner syndrome,[16][17] and its underlying contributory mechanisms to the disorder.
The second, requiring a good deal more optimism, is the belief that Homo sapiens, during this critical phase of his natural history, will not destroy himself and his planet.
We shall assume that developments in neurobiology, bioengineering and related disciplines… will ultimately provide suitable techniques of 'read-out' of the stored information from cryobiologically preserved brains into nth generation computers capable of vastly outdoing the dynamic patterning of operation of our cerebral neurones.