His research is focussed on the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic disease and covers a range of areas including: sleep/chronotype; vascular stiffness; cardiovascular disease in diabetes; diabetes and malignancy; islet and pancreas transplantation and endocrine aspects of frailty. He has current research funding from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, MRC, Diabetes UK and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre.
Martin has publications in leading journals focusing on the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic disease including several with the Framingham Heart Study and more recently with teams working with UK Biobank data. He leads several research collaborations with groups in the UK, Europe and the USA. He served as an Associate Editor for Diabetic Medicine between 2004 and 2010 (cardiovascular manuscripts), for Diabetologia between 2014 and Dec 2017 (cardiovascular manuscripts), and for Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports between 2012 and 2016. He served on the Advisory Board for Diabetologia 2017-2021.