Dr. Martin received his PhD from the University of California – San Diego in Biomedical Sciences, a program that combined molecular cell biology with pharmacology and physiology. As a graduate student with Dr. Jerry Olefsky, he focused on insulin-stimulated rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton, and demonstrated that PI3-Kinase was sufficient to induce actin membrane ruffling and stress fiber breakdown. His current research focuses on apoptosis and breast tumor metastasis, functional genomic screening for metastatic regulators, and in vivo tumor imaging.